Fox's Bream forwards McConnell's double standard on empathy

SUMMARY: On August 4, Fox News Supreme Court reporter Shannon Bream reported that "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell renewed his concerns that [Supreme Court nominee Sonia] Sotomayor will govern based on feelings, rather than law," and aired a clip of McConnell saying, "Empathy is only good if you're lucky enough to be the person or group that the judge in question has empathy for. In those cases, it's the judge, not the law, which determines the outcome." But Bream did not mention McConnell's previous votes to confirm Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, who discussed the importance of their personal experience during their confirmation hearings.

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