Justice Alito Mouths ‘not true’ During Obama’s Speech ~ Kudos to Justice Alito!

Justice Alito mouths ‘not true’
Politico
POLITICO’s Kasie Hunt, who’s in the House chamber, reports that Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words “not true” when President Barack Obama criticized the Supreme Court’s campaign finance decision.

“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,” Obama said. “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.”

The shot of the black-robed Supreme Court justices, stone-faced, was priceless.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stood up behind the justices and clapped vigorously while Alito shook his head and quietly mouthed his discontent.
Schumer and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md) are trying to find a way to legislate around the Supreme Court decision.

“All you have to do is read the dissent, the four justices who said this will defintely open the floodgates to big corporate special interests. Anybody who thinks that’s not true is out of touch with the American political process.” Van Hollen said.

Van Hollen told POLITICO he expects to unveil the package in the next 10 days to two weeks.
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) was glad the president called out the Supreme Court.

“He [Alito] deserved to be criticized, if he didn’t like it he can mouth whatever they want,” Weiner said. “These Supreme Court justices sometimes forget that we live in the real world. They got a real world reminder tonight, if you make a boneheaded decision, someone’s going to call you out on it.”

But one conservative legal expert took sides with Alito .

“The President’s swipe at the Supreme Court was a breach of decorum, and represents the worst of Washington politics — scapegoating ‘special interest’ bogeymen for all that ails Washington in attempt to silence the diverse range of speakers in our democracy,” said Bradley A. Smith, chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics, in The Corner blog on Nationalreview.com.

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Sean Hannity talking with Sarah Palin tonight about President Obama’s berating of the Supreme Court during his State of the Union Address. They watched a clip of Justice Alito shaking his head and mouthing “Not true” when Obama slammed the Court’s decision to allow American Corporations to have free speech rights in political campaigns.
Afterwards, Palin criticized Obama’s behavior in “embarrassing the court” during the speech, and said he was not “respecting the Separation of Powers” in doing so.

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Wild Thing’s comment………
This is going to get big very, very fast. Already on Drudge, Politico, and NRO within 10 minutes of completion of speech! The people will be behind Alito on this one, not the pretender in chief.
This has to be the most ignorant idiot! To chastise the SCOTUS in front of anyone, especially a national audience is unbelievable!
Besides the shots at President Bush and the Republican’s – Obama offended the military and the Justices of the Supreme Court sitting right in front of him. What an arrogant asshole – I hope he is made to regret these moves last night.
That makes 2 speeches where his audience has called him a liar….GOD Bless Joe Wilson and Justice Alito.

Here is where Obama calls for repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy. Watch the reaction from the invited members of our military.

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