Obama Sees Supreme Court Justices as Champions of the Weak Over the Strong
(CNSNews.com) – For Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, Supreme Court justices should champion the weak against the strong. It’s a view of the Supreme Court that divides the legal community. Obama outlined his views on justices in the speeches he gave on the Senate floor in opposition to the confirmations of Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. In both speeches, the Illinois Democrat chastised the nominees not for their positions on specific constitutional issues or matters of law but for what he perceived as too often siding with the strong instead of the weak.