"Feeling" the law?
"Justice is blind." Tell that to Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayer.
"In America, judges are not supposed to be fonts of wisdom, not supposed to 'feel' the right things and not supposed to be demigods purveying some sort of cosmic notion of fairness. Instead, they are supposed to apply the laws as provided to them by the political branches within these United States. Period. As Justice Potter wrote in a famous dissent, later echoed by Clarence Thomas, a judge's duty is not to decide whether or not a law is wise or fair or even whether it is 'uncommonly silly.' His duty is just to do what the law says, and let the political branches change it if its silliness or unfairness is manifest."
Read the rest at The American Spectator.
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