Al Franken actually said...

Justice Thurgood Marshall is one of the greatest lawyers and jurists in American history.

Justice Marshall wasn't some activist radical, rather, his views were very much in the mainstream.

the court should show 'special solicitude for the despised and disadvantaged, the people who went unprotected by every other organ of govern...

This is the man who won Brown v. Board of Education, who helped end segregation in our Nation's schools.