Empathy And Activist Judges
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Channel: The Uptake by Bridgemakers · 2009 · News & Politics
Senator Charles Grassley(R-Iowa) tells Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor that "empathy" is just another way of saying "legislating from the bench". Senator Russ Feingold (D - Wisconsin) tells Grassley that calling someone an "activist judge" is what you do when you don't agree with their decision.
