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

Wed Jan 21, 2015, 07:36 AM

Jan 2015

Said the SOTU is just not anything he puts on his calendar, so when he got the invite, he accepted without realizing it was SOTU night.

I don't believe him for a second. The other Justices are talking about it, putting it on their calendars, maybe teasingly asking him if he is going to attend, esp. his good friend Ruth. (That woman is a national treasure!)

Besides, if he not going to attend, the least he can do is put it on his calendar to make sure he is not an even bigger distraction from the event than his self-centered boycott makes him. JMO

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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