Thursday, April 29, 2010
President Obama sounds a warning
On Wednesday the President warned against those damned Conservative activist judges who issue rulings by agenda and not by law.
Obama already has openly criticized the Supreme Court for a January ruling - one led by the court's conservative members - that allowed corporations and unions to spend freely to influence elections. Obama has vowed to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens with a like-minded justice who will not let powerful interests crowd out voices of ordinary people.But is it too late in the wake of "Citizens United"?
On Wednesday, when asked about judicial activism as he spoke with reporters aboard Air Force One, Obama spoke of judges who ignore the will of Congress and the democratic process, imposing judicial solutions instead of letting the political process solve problems.
"In the '60s and '70s, the feeling was, is that liberals were guilty of that kind of approach," Obama said. "What you're now seeing, I think, is a conservative jurisprudence that oftentimes makes the same error."
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