Si, Pero No

El New York Times sobre Sotomayor.

At times, she too willingly ceded ground to her conservative questioners. We wish she had spoken out forthrightly in favor of empathy, a quality President Obama has said he is looking for in his judicial nominees. We would have liked to hear her boldly defend the idea of the Constitution as a living document, one that changes with the times. And we would have preferred if she had used the hearings to explain to the public that the much-mentioned distinction between judges making and applying the law has little meaning.

Pero, como decía en un comentario a un post en lo de RG, esto es casi imposible hoy en día, por los incentivos del sistema y el exitoso discurso conservador en el ámbito del derecho público de los Estados Unidos, que puso a ciertas ideas casi afuera del ámbito de lo aceptable en derecho constitucional.