2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSo which justices were missing? Scalia, Alito and Clarence?
I can see Scalia - who dances to his own castanets - and Thomas who hurries to follow him. But why Alito? Still holding a grudge for the way Obama chastised them about Citizens United? When he was sitting mumbling something like: not true, shaking his head, some couple of SOTUs ago?
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Lasher
(27,598 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)and one other guy - not sure it if was Alito or Breyer. I always get those two mixed up.
Could have been more there but Scalia was definitely 'not' there.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Conservative justices skip State of the Union
2/12/13
The conservative wing of the U.S. Supreme Court was absent from President Obama's Tuesday State of the Union address.
Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia declined to join their six other colleagues at the prime time address to Congress.
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http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/02/conservative-justices-skip-state-of-the-union-156834.html
question everything
(47,487 posts)The President was invited by the Speaker to perform a duty detailed in the Constitution and these individuals who are supposed to interpret the Constitution decline. I wish someone asked them. Perhaps someone at Fox and friends..
former9thward
(32,027 posts)56 percent of the justices attended and no more than six justices attended any of the addresses (save for
two years early in this period, 1982 and 1984). In the period from 2000 forward, on average only 32
percent of the justices attended the State of the Union Address. This includes a three-year time period
when only a single justice Stephen Breyer represented the Court at the annual address.
At Clinton's last address in 2000 no one attended.
http://roanoke.edu/Documents/SOTU%280%29.pdf
jimmy the one
(2,708 posts)QE: I can see Scalia - who dances to his own castanets - and Thomas who hurries to follow him.
Why would thomas want to go, eh? just another place where I cant say anything, sheesh, I do that all day at work. Either he went to karaoke night at the hawk & dove, or stayed home watched 'long dong silver' with white bimbo wife.
(long dong the porno flick anita hill claimed he watched, during his confirmation).
But why Alito? Still holding a grudge for the way Obama chastised them about Citizens United? When he was sitting mumbling something like: not true..
That's my guess, they won't entrap me again, cheesy liberals.
I wonder if he stayed home & removed all the vowels from reince preibus name.
Personally I don't watch the SOTMA (state of the mess address) when a republican president gives one, but then I'm not a supreme wizard, faster than a speeding lobbyist, as powerful as a loco motive, able to leap rationale arguments with a single bound.
question everything
(47,487 posts)and don't watch the Republican rebuttals. Catching the highlights later - Jindal bizarre talk, Rubio not ready for prime time - provides comic relief.
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)He probably went to a local grocery store and put his pubic hair on each can of coke.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)They don't want to know. They don't care. The most America hating justices ever.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)on health care those three don't want to be seen in public with him (Roberts). Kennedy, apparently, disagrees with his three right wing brethren.
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)BlueDemKev
(3,003 posts)I wish they had jumped in the Potomac River and drowned. They're the scum of the earth.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)wearing his dumb 15th-century hat.
hack89
(39,171 posts)http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57569146/scalia-state-of-the-union-has-turned-into-a-childish-spectacle/
hack89
(39,171 posts)http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/us-obama-speech-court-idUSBRE91C04020130213
question everything
(47,487 posts)Good to know that there is a reason. At 98, I hope she lived a rich life.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)But in a totally not gay way.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Color me surprised.