Empathy Triumphs Over Excellence ( By John Yoo)

http://blog.american.com/?p=1187

By John Yoo
May 26, 2009, 1:03 pm

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President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor shows that empathy has won out over excellence in the White House. Sotomayor has sterling credentials: Princeton, Yale Law School, former prosecutor, and federal trial and appellate judge. But credentials do not an excellent justice make. Justice Souter, whom Sotomayor would replace, had an equally fine c.v., but turned out to be a weak force on the high court.

Obama had some truly outstanding legal intellectuals and judges to choose from—Cass Sunstein, Elena Kagan, and Diane Wood come immediately to mind. The White House chose a judge distinguished from the other members of that list only by her race. Obama may say he wants to put someone on the Court with a rags-to-riches background, but locking in the political support of Hispanics must sit higher in his priorities.

..... Another right-wing freak who ought to be at a defendant's table instead of a keyboard.

How 'bout the Unibomber?

Fuck YOO!

Now he's making money off of his opinions? WTF?

"John Yoo, writing for the American Enterprise magazine blog, targets Sotomayor on grounds of excellence and intellect! This is the same man whose own legal memos were of such poor quality they forced an investigation from the Justice Department's internal watchdog. How painful is it when they remove these people's sense of shame?"

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/05/from-the-annals-of-chutzpah.html