As if there weren’t enough real issues to be outraged over, like O’bamas choice of Judge David Hamilton for the Southern Indiana District Court. His appointment throws out the concept of equal justice under the law in favor of “empathy”. What’s the Matter with Empathy?:

What’s wrong with it is that federal judges swear an oath to “administer justice without respect to persons” and to “do equal right to the poor and to the rich,” among other things. So when, for the first time in American history, a candidate for president announced that he would seek judges whose decision-making is premised explicitly upon partiality — rather than upon the impartiality that the law requires of a judge — it was so unprecedented and so outlandish that many thought it was just campaign talk…

It wasn’t.