tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508594323182473801.post5161941753767359251..comments2023-10-31T07:39:03.451-07:00Comments on Lobojo's Den: The War Against Evil Empathydrlobojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167065726194359838noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508594323182473801.post-68206901469801740072009-05-27T20:25:28.200-07:002009-05-27T20:25:28.200-07:00Actually my favorite depiction of the weighing of ...Actually my favorite depiction of the weighing of the scales of Justice are in the Egyptian Book of The Dead when Anubis is weighing the heart of the dead against the purity of Matt the Goddess of Righteousness. In some BOTDs he has his finger on the scale keeping it balanced. Grace you see was a concept older than we think.drlobojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16167065726194359838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508594323182473801.post-80332243489345700432009-05-27T20:20:45.110-07:002009-05-27T20:20:45.110-07:00On more point for you purist out there. Justice i...On more point for you purist out there. Justice is not blind, shen is blindfolded. That's a Swiss invention applied to the Themis statue from the 14th century. Question is how you going to read the scales if you are blindfolded? Not to mention who you going to whack with that sword.<br />Justice is not blind, Justice is clear sighted.drlobojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16167065726194359838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508594323182473801.post-43742590820329109672009-05-27T20:12:19.267-07:002009-05-27T20:12:19.267-07:00Empathy in a Judge? Without Empathy, there is no E...Empathy in a Judge? Without Empathy, there is no Equity. Without Equity, there is no Justice.<br />Without Justice, Law is meaningless.<br /><br />Once upon a time the lawyer for the "agency' for which I worked threatened legal action against me for practicing law without a license. Actually he was so mad at me that he was was throwing straw.<br />My crime was that I was evoking Equity Law as a basis for a Social Justice policy for the State of Oklahoma. He spit and he sputtered and said stupid things because the Big Boss and his Board agreed with the principle and adopted the policy.<br />Equity Law is a counter point to Common Law. When Common Law can not right a wrong then Equity Law may be used to do so. In Equity Law no wrong shall be without a remedy. Equity is the "Justice" part of Law. Where as the 7th Amendment to the Constitution provides for trial by jury, it does so only under Common Law. Equity Law requires a Justice to make the call for the equitable solution.<br />In 1938 the U.S. Government combined the Equity and Common Law functions into one legal format. Most legal hacks have forgotten that there ever was an Equity component to the Law. They see only the "Law" and not "Justice".<br />I said all this to make the point that Equity Law requires a serious degree of Empathy on the part of the Justice resolving the contending rights involved.<br /><br />If the Constitution is not a document of equal parts Law and Equity then there never has been one. Thus any SCOTUS Justice who can not provide Equity can not do Justice to the Justice required by the Constitution.<br /><br />Oh, yes, the Lawyer eventually won out over me and later erased most of the Equitable Policies of Social Justice that had been passed.drlobojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16167065726194359838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508594323182473801.post-1375811875074490582009-05-27T19:25:42.042-07:002009-05-27T19:25:42.042-07:00Interesting; the antonyms of empathy include apath...Interesting; the antonyms of empathy include apathy, misunderstanding, unfeelingness, <br />disregard, indifference, unconcern, mercilessness. An attractive alternative for our<br />friends on the right. Is Bork still available?BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01168862935045755393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508594323182473801.post-64240188656836287942009-05-27T18:57:05.186-07:002009-05-27T18:57:05.186-07:00I don't much like empathy in a judge either. It's...I don't much like empathy in a judge either. It's so <I> In a Different Voice </I>.TStockmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14429662359024503711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508594323182473801.post-61992039212998766302009-05-27T18:01:14.401-07:002009-05-27T18:01:14.401-07:00www.newyorker.com/reporting/
2009/05/25/090525fa_f...www.newyorker.com/reporting/<br />2009/05/25/090525fa_fact_toobinFeodorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216659885831979653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508594323182473801.post-14339127059633767252009-05-27T17:58:00.746-07:002009-05-27T17:58:00.746-07:00What disturbs me is that John Roberts is not inclu...What disturbs me is that John Roberts is not included in the cartoon. And he has quickly become a quiet force for very conservative ends, as profiled in the recent New Yorker.Feodorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216659885831979653noreply@blogger.com