John Yoo weighs in on the Sotomayor nomination: The triumph of empathy over excellence.

Yoo is persona non-grata within certain liberal communities because he wrote a legal opinion during the Bush Administration that certain rough interrogation techniques were legal. For his work, many leftists want Yoo, a tenured professor of constitutional law at Berkeley disbarred and/or prosecuted.

Call it the vengence of the ankle-biters over the excellent.