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Historian: After President’s “Insult,” Won’t Be Surprised SCOTUS Doesn’t Attend Next SOTU
ABC News ^ | January 28, 2010 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 01/28/2010 5:27:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

A noted Supreme Court historian who “enthusiastically” voted for President Obama in November 2008 today called President Obama’s criticism of the Supreme Court in his State of the Union address last night “really unusual” and said he wouldn’t be surprised if no Supreme Court Justices attend the speech next year.

“It was really unusual in my mind to see the president going after the Supreme Court in such a forum,” said author and Law Professor Lucas Powe, the Anne Green Regents Chair in Law, and a Professor of Government at the University of Texas-Austin School of Law. “I’m willing to bet a lot of money there will be no Supreme Court justice at the next State of the Union speech.”

Added Professor Powe, who clerked for Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, “you don’t go to be insulted. I can’t see the Justices wanting to be there and be insulted by the president.” His opinion has nothing to do with animus towards the President, for whom Powe said he voted enthusiastically.

President Obama took the apparently unprecedented step of assailing a Supreme Court decision in his speech last night, saying, “with all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open 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. They should be decided by the American people, and that's why I'd urge Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that corrects some of these problems."(continued)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhosotu; firstamendment; freespeech; obama; rudedems; samuelalito; scotus; sotu; stateoftheunion; tapper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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41 posted on 01/28/2010 5:56:57 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No simple insult.

He downright lied about the SC, in front of the SC, and directly to the American people.


42 posted on 01/28/2010 5:57:58 PM PST by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t understand why no one is talking about the boatload of cash that O raised for his campaign. He had so much he couldn’t spend it fast enough. Are we to believe those huge donations came from the little people? And how much of his money was from foreign sources.

I don’t believe he has the audacity to make this a public issue when he set records with his obscene cash haul!


43 posted on 01/28/2010 5:58:24 PM PST by Kenny
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That whole debacle last night was behavior unfitting of a president. Obama was rude, classless, arrogant, psychotic and boring.

I am ashamed of him and ashamed of my country for the first time since Jimmy Carter.


44 posted on 01/28/2010 5:58:26 PM PST by dforest (Who is the real Jim Thompson? I am.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Do you think they’ll swing against him because of the insult?


45 posted on 01/28/2010 5:58:30 PM PST by tbw2 (Freeper sci-fi - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
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To: SevenofNine
I have never heard a president insult the USSC in a SOTU address before, going back to days of LBJ. But then Obama is not an American and has no respect for the American rule of law, so the Supremes are just a bunch of old fogies to him.
46 posted on 01/28/2010 5:58:48 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

Does anybody know how far in 0bama castigates the Supreme Court? I cannot suffer that fool, didn’t watch it yesterday and am loath to do so today, but I have to know what he said to the SCOTUS. I’ve found a link, but his pedantic delivery is more than I can tolerate.


47 posted on 01/28/2010 5:59:33 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (I am cynical because the audacity of 0bama's recycled rhetoric no longer inspires hope.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What has Mark Levin said about this?


48 posted on 01/28/2010 6:00:01 PM PST by ncpatriot
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To: tbw2

im sure Sonia the ‘wise’(and fat and UGLY) latina will show up and ruth if shes not dead by then


49 posted on 01/28/2010 6:00:09 PM PST by wheninthecourse
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To: sport
The "elite" class is just now getting a taste of the monster that they have created with lopsided laws. Working class people have been subjected to this type of terrorism by militants using the favoritism laws for decades. Everyone fears the PC and taking on a costly lawsuit.

I hate to say this, but the only way to deal with these kinds of people legally is to tear the whole thing down and start over....shut the program down. Don't ask me how this can be done on a national scale.

50 posted on 01/28/2010 6:02:40 PM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Or better yet he consider them bunch of ole whitey that need retired come thnk of it Justice Roberts only in his 50s he is not that old


51 posted on 01/28/2010 6:06:08 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Kenyan Clown despises this country and its institutions.


52 posted on 01/28/2010 6:08:39 PM PST by snowsislander
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did anyone see Clarence Thomas there? I didn’t.


53 posted on 01/28/2010 6:11:45 PM PST by jch10 (It is an ill wind blowing...)
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To: snowsislander

Get ready for four more years of him. Last time he promised the masses free money if they would elect him. This time he will promise them free dope. Not counting all the illegals that will be here and voting Democrat in 2012. And the White pimple faced punks because it will be “cool” to vote for a Black man.


54 posted on 01/28/2010 6:16:42 PM PST by sport
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To: KrisKrinkle
Like "Jerk store."

55 posted on 01/28/2010 6:17:07 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Earthdweller

Does it remind anyone of Robespierre?


56 posted on 01/28/2010 6:18:41 PM PST by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought the same thing as soon as he said it, they are not required to be there, and probably wont be in the future now.


57 posted on 01/28/2010 6:23:03 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: arthurus
but he didn't do it on national TV, during a state of the union address. That is the difference.

They were invited guests there, and were treated like trash by the zero.

58 posted on 01/28/2010 6:25:40 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing it's idiot.)
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To: MrChips

More like the fall of Germany. I was going to say Rome but half the Church backs the destruction. The back stabbing is out in the open as well.


59 posted on 01/28/2010 6:28:21 PM PST by Earthdweller (Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......?)
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To: Earthdweller

But, in his denunciation, don’t you think Obama was about to order several members of the Court to the guillotine?


60 posted on 01/28/2010 6:32:34 PM PST by MrChips (MrChips)
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