Al Franken actually said...

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

I think that in these cases the Supreme Court was legislating from the bench, which is being activist.

I worry that AT&T and Verizon are going to decide that, well, they have to buy ABC or CBS to compete.

This is a giant of the American legal system.