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Justice Alito Appears To Say “That’s Not True” During Obama’s State of the Union Speech

01/28/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
During President Obama’s speech, Justice Samuel Alito does not rise to the same level as Joe “You Lie” Wilson, but he does mouth off in the middle of Obama’s speech with a quite “that is not true” statement regarding the President’s admonishment regarding the recent Supreme Court ruling regarding corporate campaign cash in political campaigns. When Obama stated “Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’m urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong.”

During this part of the speech, Alito shakes his head and seems to mouth “that’s not true.” It is a breaking of the decorum of the Supreme Court, who, like the Joint Chiefs of Staff, remain silent and unmoving throughout the President’s speech. Alito is one of the most conservative members of the Supreme Court. The issue of this ruling has had Republicans acting as if they had won the lottery and Democrats acting as if the Mid-Term elections were now a scrub. One of the problems that appears to come out of this case is that someone, say a Harold Ford Jr, who is favored by Wall Street could gain an advantage over someone who is not as well liked, say his potential opponent Kirsten Gillibrand.

The Supreme Court decision has been met with a lot of unhappiness within much of the country. It would be of interest to see if Justice Alito explains why he thinks that this statement was not true.