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Defend America on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 9:38:52 PM
Roberts: Scene at State of Union `very troubling'
By JAY REEVES
(AP)
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3 hours ago
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
said Tuesday the scene at President Obama's State of the Union address
was "very troubling" and the annual speech has "degenerated to a
political pep rally."
Obama chided the court, with the justices seated before him in their black robes, for its decision on a campaign finance case.
Responding
to a University of Alabama law student's question, Roberts said anyone
was free to criticize the court, and some have an obligation to do so
because of their positions.
"So I have no problems with that," he
said. "On the other hand, there is the issue of the setting, the
circumstances and the decorum.
"The image of having the members of one branch of government standing
up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering
while the court — according the requirements of protocol — has to sit
there expressionless, I think is very troubling."
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