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These unpleasant moments could be avoided if duels to settle matters of honor were still in vogue.
Obama is defying court rulings left and right.
Co-equal?
Ha!
I’m glad they chose not to attend.
Thank goodness,the gay ones showed up!
Oh yeah. I remember that, when Alito mouthed “not true”. And he was right but when the first lie gets out of the box, there’s no getting it back. Especially if hussein said it. Typical radical left wing extremist demokkkrat tactics. I didn’t watch last night, but I hear that hussein is going to order the climate to behave with an EO if congress won’t work with him.
Citizens United=EVIL.
Unions=rainbows, skittles, AZ ice tea, unicorns and fairy dust and everything is wonderful.
I think it was Mark Twain that said a lie can get half way around the world before the truth can put it’s pants on.
Our Hipster Dufus president inspires no one...Only the lazy, no work, I want it all for nothing idiots are listening...The rest of us have had it up to here with his $hit!
I thought it was customary for one member of each branch not to attend.
So this year three members of the SupremeCourt decided not to go. Why should they? Obama uses his speeches to castigate them.
There are a lot more things to worry about rather than who goes to hear the ramblings of this President. I bet most Americans didn’t watch.
I disagree with the author. I don’t think Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito had an obligation to attend based on tradition or symbolism.
When the President of the United States of America regularly behaves as a dictator and tyrant who circumvents the United States Congress and the United States Constitution, it is incumbent upon those whose duty it is to uphold the Supreme Law of this land to stand upon their absence from the State of the Union Address as an act of symbolism.
Barack Obama does not respect the majesty of the United States Constitution. Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito should not pretend otherwise.
“They should have been there.”
IMHO These two comments contradict each other. Who wants to be a captive audience and have obama ridicule and embarrass you in public AGAIN.......I don't blame em, I would have been absent also.
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The lilly livered Rick Moran still thinks Obama is fair.
Enough said.
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Thank God for these three. I didn't watch it. Even a brief glimpse on TV of bho or his wife is nauseating to me.
SCOOP
Alito’s mother died, that’s why he wasn’t there. FWIW.
For what it’s worth.......
And it made two scholars, Todd C. Peppers of Roanoke College and Micheal W. Giles of Emory University, undertake heroic work to assemble a mountain of data for a study on trends in this area based on videos, photographs and newspaper articles.
They found that justices’ attendance had been falling. From 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson moved the address from the afternoon to the evening, through 1980, the attendance rate was 84 percent. Over the next two decades, the number dropped to 53 percent. Since 2000, the rate has fallen to 32 percent.
In three of those years, only Justice Stephen G. Breyer attended. In 2000, when Justice Breyer stayed home with the flu, no justice was present.
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No, they shouldn't have been there, not after the shabby way that Obama and his flying monkeys have been treating the Court.
But the liberals, the one “moderate”, and the one who’s being blackmailed of course all attended.
They should have been there.
Horse manure.
The author should do a little homework and research the history of the "state of the union". Only in the past few decades has it become the red-carpet media circus it is today. Heck, at one time presidents had their "state of the union" written down and hand-delivered to congress. "Tradition"? What "tradition" is this author talking about? And what on earth does the Constitution have to do with the African communist, Ubama?
Good for those justices.
They should have been there.
BS. The State of Union Speech has nothing to do with the Constitution. For over a hundred years the President just sent a written address that was read before the House chamber. The Constitution only says that the President need to report "from time to time" on issues he considers important. It's a silly, worthless tradition.
That is where we part company. In my opinion, the occupier of the White House corrupts everything he comes near. All decent individuals should keep as much distance as possible beween them and him.
“...Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia declined to join their six other colleagues...”
It would appear that the Good Justices Alito, Thomas, and Scalia, did, in fact, perform the Time-Honored American Tradition of presenting a Giant Middle Finger to his Royal One-ness...
From a Grateful Nation, thank you, Justices Alito, Thomas, and Scalia.