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Here’s an article by Thomas Sowell: "Empathy" Versus Law: Part III

Sowell points out that Pres. Obama in comments about choosing a new Supreme Court justice said that he was going to appoint a judge that had “empathy” for various groups of people in decisions before the court. The Constitution calls for decisions based upon law—blind justice that does not consider those involved in the case—rich, poor, black, white, men and woman—all supposed to be equal under the law. Not so for Obama—he wants the courts to be an equalizer—to have “empathy” and render decisions based upon it instead of the law.

Here’s a quote from the article:

Barack Obama’s vision of America is one in which a President of the United States can fire the head of General Motors, tell banks how to bank, control the medical system and take charge of all sorts of other activities for which neither he nor other politicians have any expertise or experience.

The Constitution of the United States gives no president, nor the entire federal government, the authority to do such things. But spending trillions of dollars to bail out all sorts of companies buys the power to tell them how to operate.

Appointing judges to the federal courts– including the Supreme Court– who believe in expanding the powers of the federal government to make arbitrary decisions, choosing who will be winners and losers in the economy and in the society, is perfectly consistent with a vision of the world where self-confident and self-righteous elites rule according to their own notions, instead of merely governing under the restraints of the Constitution.

Already Obama as President has assumed powers and made decisions that are not given to him by the Constitution. He is probably going to end up being the most ‘lawless’ president that the USA has ever had.

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