Empathy In Judging

I find it interesting. Obama has stated that he wants a new justice to replace Justice David Souter that will display empathy. And for some reason, it is angering GOP’s. Why? I mean really, why? It is a justice’s job to interpret the law, yes. But if we wanted machines, then we would not have justices, but machines making the decision. If a person remains unmoved and cannot display empathy, then they have a problem as a human being. I mean we’re not asking for a judge that will stop mid trial and start bawling or anything, just feeling. But in Obama’s terms, it is actually the fact that he’s asking for a judge that can think outside the obvious definitions of the law. He wants a judge who can see the law from more than one perspective. After all, isn’t that how we eliminated slavery and segregation among other things?