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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No simple insult.
He downright lied about the SC, in front of the SC, and directly to the American people.
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!
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.
Do you think they’ll swing against him because of the insult?
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.
What has Mark Levin said about this?
im sure Sonia the ‘wise’(and fat and UGLY) latina will show up and ruth if shes not dead by then
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.
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
The Kenyan Clown despises this country and its institutions.
Did anyone see Clarence Thomas there? I didn’t.
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.
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Does it remind anyone of Robespierre?
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.
They were invited guests there, and were treated like trash by the zero.
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.
But, in his denunciation, don’t you think Obama was about to order several members of the Court to the guillotine?
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