"Empathy?" We don't need to steenking empathy"

Bork.

I don't know exactly what empathy means. I suppose at a minimum it means you want a judge who will depart from the meaning of the constitution when a sympathetic case arises. It does seem to raise a warning that we're talking about a judge who does not follow the law.

I know his hearing and subsequent Senate rejections were more logs on the culture wars pyre, but the nation really dodged a civil rights catastrophe back in 1987. Because if he can be so disingenuous and intellectually dishonest about the meaning of the word "empathy" and what it means for a judge, imagine what he could have done with words like, "privacy" or "human dignity."