The Case for Empathy

I can understand why the Republican'ts are so terrified by the prospect of a Supreme Court justice who has empathy. As defined by Merriam Webster online, empathy is:

"1: the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it

2: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner ; also : the capacity for this".

Clearly, having the capacity for understanding anything is beyond the scope of the Republican't party.