Last night, President Obama showed unprecedented hostility to the Supreme Court for a decision expanding free speech rights.
Watch the stone-faced Supreme Court Justices as a sea of legislators around them give Obama a standing ovation. Justice Samuel Alito can be seen shaking his head and saying “not true”.
The Supreme Court’s rulings are supposed to be anchored in constitutional principles and interpretation of the law and Justices are not supposed to be influenced by the opinions of the executive and legislative branches of our government nor by popular opinion.
Obama’s attack on the Court in a forum where the Justices could not respond is at best in poor taste and at worst a dangerous attempt to intimidate the third branch of our federal government which has equal status to the executive.
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