Fundamentally Flawed Constitutional Scholar

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Obama’s calm baritone can make anything sound reasonable, even a frustrated lament that “the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth” and disappointment that “as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical.” …

But in the cold form of text, one recoils from a potential President uttering the words that he is frustrated that the Warren Court “didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution.”

Those constraints are there for a reason.

Obama says, “Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.”

—Jim Geraghty, National Review