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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: cavegal on January 18, 2011, 03:52:08 PM
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http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Alito-State-Union-obama/2010/10/14/id/373682
Asked if he would attend the State of the Union address next year, after the TV cameras this year caught him objecting to President Obama’s denigration of the country’s highest court, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said, “I doubt that I will be there in January.†Delivering the Manhattan Institute’s prestigious Wriston Lecture on Wednesday evening, Alito noted that other justices, like the recently retired John Paul Stevens and current Justice Antonin Scalia “stopped the practice of attending State of the Union addresses, because they have become very political.â€
Attendees of the black tie event in New York City told Newsmax that Alito complained of it being “very awkward†for the justices who attend the annual speech in the presence of the assembled members of both houses of Congress.
Good! Your thoughts?
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What's to say? There's no requirement for serving justices to attend SOTU, so if he would prefer hanging out at home sipping on a brew and watching Holmes on Homes on the tube, hey, good on him.
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Hi-5 for Justice Alito.
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Hi-5 for Justice Alito.
Another H5 for Justice Alito. :cheersmate:
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Finally ... "a wise Italian ...".
Another H5 for Alito.
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Good. He can have a few (http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/beer.gif) with Scalia.
Comparing the gatherings to "cheerleading sessions," Scalia said, "I don't know at what point that happened, but it did happen, and now you go and sit there like bumps on a log while applause lines cause one half the Congress to leap up while [another] causes the other half to leap up. ... It is a juvenile spectacle. And I resent being called upon to the indignity."
I love reading his snarks.
. I am sure that the Framers of the Constitution, aware of the 1457 edict of King James II of Scotland prohibiting golf because it interfered with the practice of archery, fully expected that sooner or later the paths of golf and government, the law and the links, would once again cross, and that the judges of this august Court would some day have to wrestle with that age-old jurisprudential question, for which their years of study in the law have so well prepared them: Is someone riding around a golf course from shot to shot really a golfer? The answer, we learn, is yes. The Court ultimately concludes, and it will henceforth be the Law of the Land, that walking is not a "fundamental" aspect of golf.
Either out of humility or out of self-respect (one or the other) the Court should decline to answer this incredibly difficult and incredibly silly question."
:lmao:
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Huzzah Alito!!!
Great Scalia quotes AM.
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After what Obama pulled last year, I don't blame him one bit. Good for him.