Empathy has a proper place in other areas of life, such as medicine or charitable work. And the law does take account of a party's identity when necessary - in deciding whether someone has suffered racial or gender discrimination, for example. But judges should not apply these rules differently in individual cases because of the skin color, or sex, or religion of the plaintiff or the defendant.
According to a Michael Medved piece in townhall.com last week, the Bible tells us that justice and charity are different virtues and to seek to do charity in rendering justice, or to seek to do justice in rendering charity may result in neither.
Of course, leftists in general and leftist judges in particular will never grasp this concept.
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Biblical concepts are anathema to Obamunists...