Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women's Issues?
Glynn AN, Sen M. Identifying Judicial Empathy: Does Having Daughters Cause Judges to Rule for Women's Issues?
For affirmative action advocates, who have relied on 40 years of legal precedent to support their cause, Judge Barrett may not be someone to count on.
"To use a material witness statute pretextually, in order to investigate or pre-emptively detain suspects without probable cause," Judge Milan D. Smith Jr. wrote for the majority of the divided three-judge panel, "is to violate the Fourth Amendment," which bans unreasonable searches and seizures.
"What is so disturbing about this is that it really might cause judges in the future to be less willing to protect minorities out of fear that they might be voted out of office," said Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California, Irvine, School of Law.
The larger question, then, may be whether the flaws in the system pointed out by a finite number of DNA-based exonerations will cause judges and prosecutors to listen sympathetically to claims of innocence based on less categorical forms of evidence.
fat-shame, v.: cause (someone judged to be fat or overweight) to feel humiliated by making mocking or critical comments about their size.
While about 40% of the plausible causes were judged to be profound, i.e. to touch on the root cause of the CMP, almost 60% of the causes were judged as too superficial to be helpful in identifying an appropriate solution; examples include causes like "staff is negligent, staff has an inappropriate attitude".
That's a carefully crafted sentence, neither confirming nor denying there might even be cause to judge.
For all her emotional independence, she remains desperate to be taken seriously, aware that her lack of degree and background will give others cause to judge.
