Yoo: Empathy Triumphs Over Excellence

From AEI’s Enterprise Blog:

Sotomayor’s record on the bench, at first glance, appears undistinguished. She will not bring to the table the firepower that many liberal academics are asking for. There are no opinions that suggest she would change the direction of constitutional law as have Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court, or Robert Bork and Richard Posner on the appeals courts. Liberals have missed their chance to put on the Court an intellectual leader who will bring about a progressive revolution in the law. [Read More]

Plus: Sotomayor’s Record of Reversals. From Ed Whelan, at Bench Memos.