So let’s try and keep track. First Barack Obama said he wanted his Supreme Court nominee to bring a quality of empathy to the bench. Then he picked Sonia Sotomayor, who claimed to embody this quality. Then Republicans and movement conservatives alike launched a possibly ill-advised war on empathy (at least as it applies to Supreme Court nominees).
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=142233