Here's his comment in context.

Down the other path lies a Brave New World where words have no true meaning and judges are free to decide what facts they choose to see. In this world, a judge is free to push his or her own
political or social agenda. I reject that view, and Americans reject that view.

We have seen Federal judges force their own political and social agenda on the Nation, dictating that the words "under God" be removed
from the Pledge of Allegiance and barring students from even private-even silent prayer in schools.

Judges have dismissed the people's right to their property, saying the Government can take a person's home for the purpose of developing
a private shopping center.

Judges have - contrary to longstanding rules of war - created a right for terrorists, captured on a foreign battlefield, to sue the United States Government in our own country.

Judges have cited foreign laws, world opinion, and a United Nations resolution to determine that a State death penalty law was unconstitutional.

I am afraid our system will only be further corrupted, I have to say, as a result of President Obama's views that in tough cases, the critical ingredient for a judge is the "depth and breadth of one's empathy," as well as, his word, "their broader vision of what America should be."

Like the American people, I have watched this process for a number of years, and I fear that this "empathy standard" is another step down the road to a liberal activist, results-oriented, and
relativistic world where laws lose their fixed meaning, unelected judges set policy, Americans are seen as members of separate groups rather than as simply Americans, and where the constitutional
limits on Government power are ignored when politicians want to buy out private companies. So we have reached a fork in the road, I think, and there are stark differences.

I want to be clear:

I wil1 not vote for-and no senator should vote for-an individual nominated by any President who is not fully committed to fairness and impartiality toward every person who appears before them. (my emphasis)

(Availble on lexis.com, it's 1208 pages and security is locked so you can't cut, paste or print it. I had to take a screen grab of this particular page, save it as jpg and then Adobe and then OCR it.

As for drug laws, if you get a chance watch the you tube clip of his marijuana remarks, saying good people don't smoke marijuana. He is a deplorable on immigration.