“I wondered,” he writes in his book “The Audacity of Hope,” alluding to Senate battles over George W. But at the same time, Obama has suggested that liberals in the Warren Court mold may have placed too much trust in the courts and not enough in political activism. It’s true that Obama has cited Chief Justice Earl Warren as a judicial ideal, emphasizing that Warren, a former governor of California, had a sensitive understanding of the real-world effects of Supreme Court decisions.
He has made clear that despite his progressive inclinations, he is not a 1960s-style, Warren Court liberal - someone who believes that the justices should boldly define constitutional rights in an effort to bring about social change. When talking about the Supreme Court, Barack Obama has resisted the familiar ideological categories that have defined our judicial battles for the past several decades.
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