Sessions, a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, took special aim at U.S. Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, as well as President Barack Obama, suggesting that they are threats to the Constitution. The judges, he said, are “untethered in their judicial philosophy from the words and meaning of the Constitution.” He attacked Obama for stating that he looks for judges with empathy: “Whatever empathy is, it’s not law.”

The senator recalled one quote from Sotomayor that, he said, “still makes the hair stand on my neck.” He explained: “She said there is no objectivity, just a series of perspectives.” He suggested that the problem may be that Sotomayer and other judges aren’t sufficiently religious: “If you have secularization in the world and don’t believe in a higher being, maybe you don’t believe there is any truth.”

(In a 2001 speech, Sotomayor approvingly quoted several law professors who said “there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives,” according to a 2009 article in The New York Times.)

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