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Sen. Russ Feingold: Samuel Alito behavior 'inappropriate'
Politico ^ | 1/28/10 | MANU RAJU

Posted on 01/28/2010 2:53:55 PM PST by blueyon

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) sharply criticized Samuel Alito's reaction to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, calling the conservative Supreme Court justice’s behavior “inappropriate.”

During last night's address, Obama took aim at the Supreme Court's decision to gut campaign finance restrictions for corporations and labor unions. While Supreme Court justices typically maintain stoic dispositions during State of the Union addresses, Alito, who joined the 5-4 opinion, appeared to mouth the words “not true” as Obama spoke.

"That's not very judicial of him," Feingold told POLITICO. "Apparently, he thinks he gets to make the law. He should maintain his judicial demeanor, and that was inappropriate."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 111th; alito; bho44; bhosotu; democrats; feingold; liberalfascism; obama; scotus; sotu; supremes; youlie
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To: savedbygrace

“Tinkered with? It was pwned. That’s why Feingold is acting up.”

Sorry...left off the sarc...


61 posted on 01/28/2010 3:27:34 PM PST by jessduntno (Two enormous holes: The Grand Canyon and the Grand Kenyan.)
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To: blueyon

Bastard dems. Anything that a normal person does is inappropriate to them.
Whatever a dem does is perfectly OK, and they go to great lengths to forgive and forget anything a dem does, including racism, lies and crimes.


62 posted on 01/28/2010 3:28:28 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: ronnie raygun

You got that right!!!!


63 posted on 01/28/2010 3:28:46 PM PST by Lily4Jesus ( Jesus Saves)
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To: blueyon

I think Obama OWES the SCOTUS an apology!

Call them out and have 400 people around them stand up and clap in derision?

Stay classy ‘O.


64 posted on 01/28/2010 3:29:03 PM PST by lacrew (The 274th trimester is a very late procedure)
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To: blueyon
Hey Obama:

YOU LIE!


65 posted on 01/28/2010 3:29:19 PM PST by khnyny (Our government is becoming "The Committee of Public Safety")
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To: grobdriver
Is this asshole's seat in play?

Yes Sir, it is! I so cannot wait to vote against him!

66 posted on 01/28/2010 3:29:29 PM PST by Ladysmith ("A community organizer can't bitch when communities organize." Rush Limbaugh)
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To: blueyon

Code Pink vows undying love to Feingold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJMYJK6jc1M


67 posted on 01/28/2010 3:30:49 PM PST by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue for as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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To: blueyon
Feingold is just mad that his own legislation, McCain/Feingold ie Campaign Finance Reform, was ruled un-Constitutional and, in opinion, called un-American by Justice Kennedy.

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President Wrong on Citizens United Case [Bradley A. Smith]

Tonight the president engaged in demogoguery of the worst kind, when he claimed that last week's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, "open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities."

The president's statement is false.

The Court held that 2 U.S.C. Section 441a, which prohibits all corporate political spending, is unconstitutional. Foreign nationals, specifically defined to include foreign corporations, are prohibiting from making "a contribution or donation of money or ather thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State or local election" under 2 U.S.C. Section 441e, which was not at issue in the case. Foreign corporations are also prohibited, under 2 U.S.C. 441e, from making any contribution or donation to any committee of any political party, and they prohibited from making any "expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication."

This is either blithering ignorance of the law or demagoguery of the worst kind.

— Bradley A. Smith is Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law at Capital University Law School


68 posted on 01/28/2010 3:33:23 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid!)
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To: blueyon

Feingold is the clown that took the azz-whipping from the Supreme Court, yyou have to be expecting him to look for some sort of cheap petty revenge, and this is the best he could do.

What a “little” man he is.


69 posted on 01/28/2010 3:33:53 PM PST by Venturer
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To: blueyon
Apparently, he thinks he gets to make the law

Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech

He just agrees that you don't get to make the law: you loser.

70 posted on 01/28/2010 3:35:25 PM PST by ALPAPilot
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To: FormerACLUmember

Feingold was losing to Newman back in 98 until the large liberal county votes (acorn produced) came in and pulled it out for him at the last hour.


71 posted on 01/28/2010 3:36:13 PM PST by rj45mis
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To: ronnie raygun

Yes, and scolding about things that were “not true” was even worse.


72 posted on 01/28/2010 3:36:28 PM PST by LucyJo (http://www.housetohouse.com/)
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To: gibtx2
Alito knew he was lying when Obama said that foreign governments could influence elections. That is misleading and misdirecting the public into a false choice HIM or our Republic
73 posted on 01/28/2010 3:37:13 PM PST by wmposh
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To: blueyon

Obortion O was wrong to say anything at all about the Surpreme Court.

He needs to apologize for overstepping.


74 posted on 01/28/2010 3:37:32 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Kartographer

I look at this picture and I ask myself : Is Ginsberg really catatonic?


75 posted on 01/28/2010 3:37:54 PM PST by Venturer
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To: blueyon

These people have real balls lemme tell you. The President broke protocol with calling them out to begin with in the SOTU address.

Eat it Feingold.


76 posted on 01/28/2010 3:38:16 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Interesting. Has Tommy Thompson declared yet?


77 posted on 01/28/2010 3:38:45 PM PST by Norman Bates
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To: Norman Bates

No. He is being like Brett Favre.


78 posted on 01/28/2010 3:39:45 PM PST by Cheap_Hessian (I am the Grim FReeper.)
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To: blueyon

Oh good grief...now who was out of line at the SOTU speech? That impostor giving the speech.


79 posted on 01/28/2010 3:40:29 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: blueyon
"Apparently, he thinks he gets to make the law. He should maintain his judicial demeanor, and that was inappropriate."

LOL! Hey Feingold....WTF does 'Supreme' Court mean to you?

80 posted on 01/28/2010 3:41:09 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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