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The latest buzz on the campaign trail involves Barack Obama’s comments during a 2001 radio interview about advancing redistributionist policies legislatively or through the courts. Related to that, at one point Obama observed the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren “wasn’t that radical.” Depends on your point of view. Conservatives recall the Warren Court for expanding rights for suspected criminals and kicking prayer out of the public schools — fairly controversial at the time, even radical.