They should just have a “more pressing engagement” next time.
And make it known they had a “more pressing engagement.”
We need to neuter the pos in November.
I like John Roberts. He did a great job of putting the little pissant in his place without appearing disrespectful. That scene at the SOTU was like watching wolves surround a group of lambs.
No brownie points for Obama in the Roberts court.
Roberts seems like a decent man. I wish SCOTUS would take one of the BC cases.
But but but... he is our 1st hithtoric clean articulate Fro Mericun that rarely speaks with a negro dialect. We need to give him more time.
Lesson for the day....... Did you lightly coat your barrels with oil?
Roberts and Alito should have led them all out the door right in the middle of the address...
We were “troubled” that the SCOTUS wasn’t interested in settling the questions regarding Obama’s constitutional eligibility, but you told us to shove it basically. Not feeling much sympathy for ya there Justice.
I think it’d be great of the justices declined the invitation next year. Why sit thru that classless clown’s pathetic sales pitch? He’s little more than a carny at the circus.
Persecution is more like it.
Led by the President himself. Disgusting.
“the decorum”
The current occupant of the White House has none.
Responding to a University of Alabama law student's question, Roberts said anyone was free to criticize the court, and some have an obligation to do so because of their positions... "The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the court -- according the requirements of protocol -- has to sit there expressionless, I think is very troubling."Plenty of spin in that excerpt, check it out. The Demwit cheerleaders of that suppression of the First Amendment are no different than the enemies of the US who cheered 9/11. Thanks reaganaut1.
The liberal establishment - headed by Obama - are bullies.
"I'm not sure why he's there," said Roberts, a Republican nominee who joined the court in 2005.
Separation of Powers does not mean that any branch may separate itself from the Constitution, Judge Roberts.
Obama, or WHATEVER his real name is, does not meet the 'natural born citizen' requirement and, Judge, you are obligated to act upon that -- given where you are.
When Joe Wilson made his famous “You lie!” remark during a previous Obama speech to Congress, the democrats got enraged. Their rationale was that the President is an invited guest of Congress, and that it is rude to invite a guest into your home then insult him. Ok, fine. The Supreme Court justices are invited guests as well of Congress then. If you invite a guest into your home and they take the opportunity to insult the other guest that you have invited into your home, isn’t that just as wrong? I wish more GOP members of Congress would have made this point: “President Obama was a guest of Congress. It is entirely inappropriate for him to use that opportunity as a platform to insult our other guests, the Supreme Court of the United States. Joe Wilson was criticized for insulting President Obama in a previous address to Congress and what the President did tonight was just as offensive. I’m sure Speaker of House Nancy Pelosi will be bringing a vote to the floor of the House to allow us to put on the record our displeasure with the President’s insult of our other guests.”
Roberts is right, but it’s nothing new. The SOTU update was probably originally intended to be either entirely in writing or, if oral, very apolitical, not unlike The Queen’s Speech. (The President here is both head of state, like the Queen, and head of government, like the PM. But the Speech is of course by the head of state, hence largely apolitical.)
Over time, SOTU has devolved into just another big political speech. The Justices should politely decline to attend such affairs, just as they should avoid any other nakedly politically contentious speeches.
Yes, Chief Justice Roberts, when the Dems occupy the WH, just say 'no' to the question of 'whether justices should attend the speeches'.
I think it’s just amazing that there don’t seem to be ANY Democrats anywhere instructing Barry & Michelle on proper protocol. It’s so bad, that I occasionally wonder if they are being intentionally sabotaged.
After 0bama made his snarky remark the Justices should have stood up and walked out.