2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumOnly six of the 9 justices will attend the State of the Union speech tonight.
Six of the nine Supreme Court justices are expected to attend tonight's State of the Union address, per NBC's Pete Williams. The three who will sit it this year out are Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito. Alito made headlines in 2010 for mouthing "not true" when the president criticized the court's ruling on corporate campaign spending. Scalia, who has skipped the previous seventeen addresses, has said of the State of the Union: "It has turned into a childish spectacle. I don't want to be there to lend dignity to it."
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I'm glad the 3 AH's won't be there! One less thing to piss me off.
isobar
(188 posts)CrispyQ
(36,501 posts)No one could contribute dignity to that.
isobar
(188 posts)Response to isobar (Reply #6)
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JimDandy
(7,318 posts)That is the implication, unless you mean to hold up Scalia as in: he is the greatest person ever, but even he can't bring dignity to such an act. Either way, your comment and decision not to delete sucks.
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JimDandy
(7,318 posts)Trolling and very poorly too.
redwitch
(14,946 posts)Poorly thought out comment isobar, please remove.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)let them sit home and sulk...
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Childish spectacle it's Fat Tony.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)He would actually detract from it.
The Blue Flower
(5,444 posts)They're doing everyone a favor, the scum.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)Did he admonish Alito for his "childish" behavior?
sabbat hunter
(6,834 posts)he didn't go to the SotU addresses when Bush was in the white house either. I guess he has better things to do.
DFW
(54,436 posts)There are executions to justify, voting rights to suppress, and dirty campaign funds to legalize.
He certainly has better things to do than to listen to some president who has other goals in mind.
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ladjf
(17,320 posts)He added to the "dignity" of the speech by not being present.
Their absence clearly proves their partisan bias, which is not supposed to be the case with Supreme Court Justices.
kairos12
(12,869 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)He thinks well of himself. Nice for him.
bigdarryl
(13,190 posts)The very first one.When he told them about there ruling on Citizens United and Alito siad not true.
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)I'd be fine if none of them showed up. Well, maybe a few.
DFW
(54,436 posts)I guess Roberts and Kennedy showed up, but probably only for show.