Here comes da Judge

New Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor debuts in the audio arguments during the First Amendment case that has pitted proponents of campaign spending
limits on corporations against an odd coalition of conservative
advocates and free-speech purists including the American Civil
Liberties Union and Reporters for Freedom of the Press.

I would not want to be a Judge.  The entire controversy of confirming Sotomayor based on the fear of whether she would be true to the "fidelity of the law" seems ridiculous to me.  Judges are humans and the ability to be impartial is always framed by our experiences, our point of view and the "log in our own eye". 

Today we studied Matt. 7 in Bible Study.  Jesus has always taught empathy, and seeking first to understand.  The challenges Judges have is when to stop listening to evidence and make the ruling. Both fortunately and unfortunately it is a yes or no; black and white; on or off.  Judges wear black, interpret the gray world.

We call them "Your Honor" as they have the solemn responsibility to interpret the law.  So I suspect in a Judge's vocabulary there is not a right or wrong law -  It is just THE LAW.  So the 64 dollar question is when a Judge believes the law is wrong - how do they rule?

Matt. 7: 1-2
¹"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. ²For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.