Obama speaks at length on spreading the wealth

In 2001, Barack Obama gave an interview to Chicago Public radio in which he bemoaned that the Warren Court "didn't break free of the essentail restraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution."

He also said that "one of the tragedies of the the civil rights movement ... was that there was a tendency to lose track" of the "coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change."



HT: Glenn Reynolds, who adds, "this is pretty standard stuff in large parts of legal academia."