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Jeff Sessions: “Call it empathy, call it prejudice, or call it sympathy, but whatever it is, it's not law. In truth it's more akin to…”

On the recordJuly 12, 2009
Call it empathy, call it prejudice, or call it sympathy, but whatever it is, it's not law. In truth it's more akin to politics.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Jeff Sessions critiques the idea of empathy in judicial decision-making.

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