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Empathy Trumps Excellence

John Yoo—Berkeley Law professor, one-time clerk for Clarence Thomas, former deputy assistant attorney general, American Enterprise Institute visiting scholar, and author of War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror—argues that sterling credentials do not necessarily make an excellent justice.

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