I Nominate Judge Anna Diggs Taylor to Replace Souter on the Supreme Court
ByMay 1 2009
The minute I heard the news that Souter was going to resign, the name Anna Diggs Taylor popped into my mind from the dark scary years of the Bush Dictatorship. I know, I know, it’s all still pretty scary,they aren’t after all, behind bars..yet.
This was the judge you may recall, that ruled the NSA Warrantless Wiretap Program, un-Constitutional,and violated the FISA laws. She actually eventually ruled that George Bush had broken the law, and then the Crooks and Liars in place in the Justice Department, swooped in and stifled her ruling with Justice Games.
I nominate Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, to the Supreme Court.
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Obama says he wants someone with "empathy" for "people’s hopes and struggles."
"Empathy"; there’s a word we never heard from George W, Bush.
It wasn’t in my own vocabulary unti as a sophomore I took an undergraduate course in Humanistic Psychology at Michigan State from Marion Kinget, who had been mentored by Carl Rogers.
Rogers was the first major psychologist who refined the definition of empathy as having a deep sense of what the other person’s feelings and life experience. It was the bedrock of his approach to what he called client centered therapy.
My sense of the conservatives on the court is that they lack this characteristic.
To have empathy, one needs intelligence. I find conservatism the antithesis of intelligence.
Conservatism is a fear based philosophy, who’s solution is authority, structure, limits. Anyone who does not share the need to be fenced in, threatens to puncture their protective membrane. A membrane kept intact with greed, fear, and loathing. When John McCain or any of the conservatives, look out at their constituencies, it’s a crowd of stupid uneducated uninquisitive and angry people.The Republican Convention was the most appalling gathering of ugly Americans I’ve ever seen.
When Barack Obama looks out at his crowds, he sees people capable of empathy, people capable of responding to reality.
I think she’d be a fine choice, not only a woman (the court should reflect that women are half of the country) but she’d be a be a much needed black progressive on the court.
However, I don’t think Obama will consider her because she’s (about) 77 years old. I doubt he’ll nominate someone older than 60, probably younger.
I agree Hal..had no idea she was that old. Too bad. I’d like to see the courageous rewarded.