Geez, that is a fairly important statement. Maybe it has too much commonsense to make a splash to get past the noise generated by the bitterness comment."'The Supreme Court has to be, first and foremost, thinking about and looking out for those who are vulnerable in our midst,' he said.""People who are poor. People who have been cheated. People who have been taken advantage of. People who have unpopular opinions. People who are outsiders," Obama said.
Those folks, he said, need the judicial branch looking out for them, "because powerful people, insiders, they typically are in control of the other two branches of government. They have access."
Still, he added, that doesn't mean he wants a court that will always side with those folks, regardless of the facts and the law.
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He wants "a Supreme Court who is going to stop giving the executive branch -- whether it's me or George Bush or John McCain or whomever it is -- stop giving the president carte blanche to do whatever it is they want."
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