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Reversed on Appeal: The Uncertain Future of President Obama’s “Empathy Standard”

John Paul Rollert

Words have a way of coming back to haunt you, especially those you bother to print. Just ask Elena Kagan. In a 1995 book review, she famously skewered the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominees as “a vapid and hollow charade, in which repetition of platitudes have replaced …