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merrily

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3. I vote for Ginsburg to stay away from the SOTU so she can be the Designated Survivor Justice!

Reply to Sherman A1 (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 21, 2015, 07:11 AM

Jan 2015

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I mean, what is the Secretary of Transportation going to know about picking and training 8 new SCOTUS Justices?

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Why 3 Supreme Court Justices Didn’t Attend the State of the Union [View all] mfcorey1 Jan 2015 OP

Frankly Sherman A1 Jan 2015 #1

I vote for Ginsburg to stay away from the SOTU so she can be the Designated Survivor Justice! merrily Jan 2015 #3

Ginsburg apparently fell asleep at this SOTU. n/t PoliticAverse Jan 2015 #8

I am not understanding which point you are trying to make. merrily Jan 2015 #10

The point is if you want to pick a single justice to represent the Supreme Court at the SOTU, PoliticAverse Jan 2015 #19

Why not? Falling asleep at the SOTU does not affect performance of her duties as a Justice or merrily Jan 2015 #21

Oh I see, you are picking her to be the only justice not at the STOU PoliticAverse Jan 2015 #24

You are right. I better change my post merrily Jan 2015 #26

I did too and do so every year Sherman A1 Jan 2015 #11

She had a stent placed in a heart artery this last week. longship Jan 2015 #15

My bad. My original post about Ginsburg led PoliticAverse astray. merrily Jan 2015 #29

I hear Scalia takes a dump in that ridiculous hat he affects before he puts it on in the am. merrily Jan 2015 #2

(that would partly explain the malodorous emanations coming from him..... lastlib Jan 2015 #13

He's very smart so I can't honestly call him shit for brains. I did the next best thing merrily Jan 2015 #22

Based upon his opinion of the SOTU Speech, Thomas avebury Jan 2015 #4

Based on the American Bar Association's opinion of Thomas, probably Thomas should not be merrily Jan 2015 #12

And that was BEFORE he was seated ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #14

A SCOTUS with so little curiosity about the usually important cases being argued before him merrily Jan 2015 #23

Actually ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #30

Perhaps it is that we tend to engage only around our disagreements. merrily Jan 2015 #31

LOL ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2015 #32

Key word being "only?" merrily Jan 2015 #33

Alito can't keep his mouth shut anyway caraher Jan 2015 #5

He becomes the story by skipping it anyway. And the story will always include merrily Jan 2015 #7

Probably attending right-wing fund raisers... KansDem Jan 2015 #6

One year, Scalia was a speaker at another event. He claimed he did not do it to upstage the SOTU. merrily Jan 2015 #9

It is a heavily political event, I'm okay if they all skip it. n/t tammywammy Jan 2015 #16

Same here. I couldn't care less if the SC justices are there are not. Pacifist Patriot Jan 2015 #17

They should skip it. There is no reason for them to be there. Vattel Jan 2015 #18

OK I can see that, if all skip it. Then, it does not become its own story that distracts from the merrily Jan 2015 #25

Holy crap! I can't believe I actually agree with Scalia, Thomas and Roberts about something! The_Commonist Jan 2015 #20

Was 'Real Housewives of New York' renewed? Octafish Jan 2015 #27

Clarence Thomas wrote the book on partisan politics. B Calm Jan 2015 #28

Sonia Sotomayor skipped last year's SOTU former9thward Jan 2015 #34

No surprise Scalia thinks it's a childish spectacle AndreaCG Jan 2015 #35

Uncle Ruckus complaining about partisanship? hifiguy Jan 2015 #36