Sen. John McCain made a major address today on the kind of judges he would nominate if elected President. McCain made it clear he believes in a conservative, strict constructionist philosophy on the order of Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justice Samuel Alito. You can hear a key portion of McCain's remarks in the video above.

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NOTE: Notice Sen. McCain was accompanied to Wake Forest for the speech by Sen. Fred Thompson, a strong proponent of the Strict Constructionist philosophy for Judges.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain, seeking to shore up conservative support, vowed to model his Supreme Court appointees after George W. Bush's and accused his Democratic opponents of favoring ``activist'' judges.

McCain today said Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ``don't seem to mind at all when fundamental questions of social policy are preemptively decided by judges instead of by the people and their elected representatives.''

The speech, given at the Wake Forest University chapel in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, marked McCain's most detailed comments on his criteria for appointing judges. McCain hailed Bush's appointees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, as ``jurists of the highest caliber who know their own minds, and know the law, and know the difference.''  read more »