Judges Criteria

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. - Barack Obama 


I thought Judges were supposed to judge according to the law - that judging by emotion was legislating from the bench.


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