{"id":1129,"date":"2009-05-27T14:23:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T21:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/law\/2009\/05\/27\/dean-eastman-published-op-ed-on-judge-sotomayor\/"},"modified":"2009-05-27T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T21:23:03","slug":"dean-eastman-published-op-ed-on-judge-sotomayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/law\/2009\/05\/27\/dean-eastman-published-op-ed-on-judge-sotomayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Eastman Published Op-Ed on Judge Sotomayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dean John Eastman published an op-ed in Christian Science Monitor<\/em>, entitled \u201cFlags of caution over Sotomayor.\u201d\u00a0 The piece discusses several of Sotomayor\u2019s previous judgments and brings into question her ability to judge fairly and objectively.\u00a0 Eastman writes, \u201cThe question now, for the Senate, is to determine whether the empathic skills of his first nominee to the high Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, would enhance the court’s ability to faithfully apply the law or would instead amount to an impermissible thumb on the scales of justice.\u201d Read op-ed\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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