More likely or less likely to support?

[El Barto]

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?

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

[lehighguy]

I don't get it.

[El Barto]

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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.

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.

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.

[etgryphon]

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

-Gryph

[MelchyBeau]

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

Melch

[El Barto]

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.