The Sonia Sotomayor nomination:

Please take the time to read Rich's post Empathy Need Not Apply for the Supreme Court. I remember Justice Robert's baseball analogy and thinking how perfect it was to explain what a judges' role is on the courts. Like the baseball analogy, an umpire makes calls based on the rules of the game-not by a person's ethnicity, up-bringing, rich or poor, etc. The determination of innocence or guilt is to be made without bias or prejudice and the blindfolded statue of Lady Justice is the symbol of that.