More likely or less likely to support?
 

Let's assume that Judge X's father was killed after Judge X had grown up and become a judge. The killer of the father was convicted and executed for the murder of Judge X's father.

Does this information make you more or less likely to support Judge X to be a Supreme Court justice?

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I don't get it. Do you mean like a sympathy vote? Because that would just be dumb.

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I don't get it.

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There is nothing to get.

Maybe being a close family member of a victim involved in a death penalty case would affect how that judge thinks about the death penalty.

Did the execution bring closure to him/her?

Does he/she now have a victim's family perspective?

Or would it not really affect his/her judicial decisions at all?

I don't know the answer, but judge X is one of the likely nominees of Bush to the Supreme Court, and I wonder if this aspect of judge X's personal history matters to anyone.

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I would give more support to any judge that had been personally involved in a murder case. I think judges become to dinsinfranchised with victims and forget what the legal system is all about.

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I am less likely to support a judge who favors the death penalty than one who does not, if that's what you're getting at.

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Yes. I would support judge Luttig...And so should the country.

-Gryph

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I voted no. However, how much did the judge push for the death penalty? This could affect my support for him.

Melch

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Here is a picture you don't see every day. The two most powerful black people in the country chatting with each other, and the most powerful hispanic in the country in the background.

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-d...5100300679.jpg