Steve Chapman on Obama's Justices vs. Obama

Barack Obama, the law professor who railed against the Bush administration's disdain for privacy, has been to civil liberties what the Hindenburg was to air travel: an unexpected debacle. Time after time, he has chosen to uphold government power at the expense of individual protections. Miracuously, writes Steve Chapman, he has appointed to the Supreme Court people who don't entirely share his taste for aggressive statism.