Posted on 03/12/2010 6:20:14 PM PST by raptor22
When President Obama turned his State of the Union address into an attack on the Supreme Court's ruling that ended the ban against corporate spending for political campaigns, the justices had to sit there motionless while encircled by Democratic lawmakers who cheered the president's scolding.
Judicial scholars could not recall a president "taking a swipe" at the justices, as one of them put it, in such a venue, at least not since President Franklin D. Roosevelt did it in his 1937 address before he tried to pack the court with more liberals to rule in favor of his unconstitutional New Deal programs.
Sadly, all of the news media's focus on Mr. Obama's criticism was on Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who was seen shaking his head and mouthing the words "Not true, not true" to something the president said that was, well, not true.
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