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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't expect to see Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the State of the Union, no matter what you might hear
from the Rethugs. It's NOT a tradition for Supreme Court Justices to attend, and she didn't attend last year.
It's completely optional, and I'd rather our recovering Justice stay away from that germy place!
The article below is from LAST YEAR:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/29/skipping-state-union-supreme-court-tradition-regardless-whos-president/1073785001/
WASHINGTON Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be the most notable member of the high court to skip President Trump's first State of the Union address Tuesday night, but she won't be the only one.
Ginsburg who attended all of President Barack Obama's annual speeches will be joined in absentia Tuesday night by four other justices, leaving Trump without a Supreme Court quorum.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are perennial no-shows. Justice Sonia Sotomayor is in Panama. Justice Anthony Kennedy is in his home state of California.
Boycotting the presidential address, it seems, isn't based on politics. The four justices who will be in attendance -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch, Trump's lone appointee -- represent diverse ideologies.
SNIP
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Being them, it can only get weirder from there as their conspiracy eventually spins out explanations of her appearances. Maybe zombie doubles.
Link to tweet
But, sure. Since it's the POTUS report to congress, justices only attend if they feel like it and numbers vary up and down every year.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)driving this, both from those who care about her and those anxious to have her drop dead. I wouldn't worry about the various rumors themselves. They all have a natural extinction point.
TexasTowelie
(111,279 posts)He was replaced by Kavanaugh. Crappy reporting by USA Today.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)You belong to us