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I posted a few days ago on the question of whether a constitutional law course could be taught without the Constitution as assigned reading. Barack Obama seems to speak directly to this question in stating that, “the critical ingredient [for a Supreme Court justice] is supplied by what is in the judge’s heart.” Says Mr. Obama,

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old—and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

Read more about Mr Obama’s views on the rule of feeling, rather than the rule of law, here.