Today's big "fuck YOU" goes to Adam Liptak, NYT, for telling us that Obama did it, but Bush didn't

[Amerigo Vespucci]

"LEAVE BRITNEY (with "Britney" being "The Supreme Court of the United States") ALONE!!!"

Supreme Court Gets a Rare Rebuke, in Front of a Nation

By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: January 28, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/us/politics/29scotus.html

WASHINGTON — It is not unusual for presidents to disagree publicly with Supreme Court decisions. But they tend to do so at news conferences and in written statements, not to the justices’ faces.

President George W. Bush, for instance, did not hesitate to criticize a 2008 ruling recognizing the rights of prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — but he did it at a news conference in Rome. President Richard M. Nixon said he was disappointed with a 1974 decision ordering him to turn over the tapes that would help end his presidency — in a statement read by his lawyer.

President Obama’s approach at the State of the Union address Wednesday night was more personal, and he seemed a little self-conscious about it.

Before he began his attack on a Supreme Court decision not yet a week old, Mr. Obama added a few words that had not been in the prepared text. The new preface — “with all due deference to separation of powers” — seemed to acknowledge that he was aiming unusual rhetorical fire at several Supreme Court justices sitting right in front of him.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., one of the justices in the majority in the decision under attack, shook his head as he heard the president’s summary of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and he appeared to mouth the words “not true.”

It was not quite the shouted “You lie!” from Representative Joe Wilson, Republican of South Carolina, at September’s presidential address to a joint session of Congress. But in its way, the breach of decorum on both sides was much starker.

[timeforpeace]

1. Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times wrote a similar criticism of Obama yesterday about this.

[Bitwit1234]

2. But it has also been all over the net about Reagan AND Bush

telling the Supreme Court they didn't agree with a decision. Doesn't that count.

[onenote]

3. I don't think reagan and bush directly crticized the SCOTUS in SOTU addresses

I also don't think it matters a bit. There was nothing inappropriate about the President commenting on, and criticizing, the decision in Citizens United.

[timeforpeace]

4. Could become popular. Invite someone and then tear them to pieces.

[onenote]

6. I'm curious. Does the President invite the SCOTUS to attend or does Congress?

[Robb]

8. Congress invites the President

...I would assume they invite everyone. :shrug:

[TwilightGardener]

5. Glad he did it. Don't care about the criticisms or the protocol.

[glitch]

7. These people have messed up our government for perhaps decades and the NYT is writing about decorum?

Really?

[Cha]

9. I don't give a shit what corporatemediawhore tools think.

No offense to you, Amerigo:)