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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will not be in attendance at President Trump's first State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Ginsburg is scheduled to be at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island for her speaking tour on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.
While Ginsburg has been critical of Trump in the past, her talk at the university was announced last August.
Ginsburg did not attend Trump's address to Congress last year after attending all eight of former President Obama's addresses.
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas also did not attend Trump's address.
Mandatory attendance of course is not expected of Supreme Court Justices, but they do typically make an appearance.
Of course Ginsberg and Trump have had a notoriously strained relationship.
Personally I do not blame Ginsburg, you could not get me there at gunpoint.Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. Her mind is shot - resign!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2016
And as it turns out there are a lot of other people with better things to do that night as well.
Such as hold their own Hollywood version of the SOTU for instance:
Mark Ruffalo and a bevy of Hollywood fixtures — including director Michael Moore, “The View’s” Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie Perez and “Sex and the City’s” Cynthia Nixon — are participating in a star-studded counter-event to President Trump’s State of the Union.
The so-called “People’s State of the Union” will be held on Monday, the night before Trump’s address to Congress on Jan. 30.
Ruffalo, one of Trump’s most outspoken Hollywood critics, told People magazine that the alternative event will be “a better reflection of our state of the union based on a more populist point of view, based on the people’s point of view."
"I think it’s important because we have a president who has a difficult time with the truth, who has a radical, divisive agenda, and spends an enormous amount of time focusing on the negative and hopelessness and despair,” the Oscar-nominated actor said.
The function, hosted by We Stand United, MoveOn.org Political Action and Stand Up America, will also reportedly feature comedian Wanda Sykes, actress Kathy Najimy, singer Andra Day and rapper Common.
Oh yeah, that sounds like a lot more fun.
Wouldn't it be a kick in the ass if Ginsburg managed to get out of her Rhode Island gig early and showed up to this People's State of the Union event?
Oh yeah the orange tinted Twitter fingers would certainly be maniacally tapping away then.
Love that thumb UP pic
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I'm with----->her. I have heard enough from that lying pos bully. He cannot say ANYTHING that will change my mind about his nasty plans to rape america. But he can do one thing...release your tax returns, confess, repent and take your shithole of a Russian mess and shove it. Nope no plans to watch this liar.
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Trump doesn't have nearly the brain power as this outstanding woman. She is so far superior to him it makes me laugh that he'd go after her verbally.
ReplyDeleteHe truly is such an idiot! I didn't vote for him and he doesn't represent me in any way. Referring to him as "mr" or "president' is not in my vocabulary. He does not have my respect or admiration. Far from it, in fact!
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Still leaning in on the Hollywood genius club are you lol?!
Well we Democrats enjoy their company, and of course their financial donations, but only the Republicans have fawned over them so much as to elect a B movie actor and reality show host to the presidency.
DeleteYou personally enjoy the company of Mark Ruffalo and Whoopi Goldberg et al?
DeleteOh those Hollywooders are sooo smart, and the lowly servant class should just vote for whoever they have instructed you to vote for.
BTW say hi to Clooney if you run into him this weekend enjoying his company. Tell him sorry I missed his party last week, but conflicts of life and all that.
Now he is "working" by engaging in a twitter war with JayZ. I guess this is better than a twitter war with N.Korea,the presidency has really lowered the bar.
ReplyDeleteStaying home watching the Kardashians would be more intellectual stimiulating than listening to that buffoon lie for 60 minutes.
Go Ginsberg!!
Joseph Kennedy III is giving the rebuttal,that should tick never done community service don off.
ReplyDeleteMelanomia can delude herself that she is Jackie, that is if she shows up.
Nobody's really offering anything alternative to do while the fat orange fuck is telling America again about how many electoral college votes he got and all about his latest nickname for his enemy of the day.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to be reading my free copy of Fire and Fury, then I'll watch Joe Kennedy and I'll watch Jimmy Kimmel, he'll have Stormy Daniels on and it's such an inspired idea that I think I should support him.
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DeleteI doubt many Americans will watch Trump's SOTU speech. Betcha President Obama will have shown to outnumber him by millions in both his SOTU addresses.
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The major problem with ignoring Traitor Trump is that while we're turning our backs on him, he and his cronies are going to f*** us up even worse. Look what they've done while we've watched!
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The Kochs have boarded the Trump train.
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I think it demeans the SCOTUS whenever any justice makes political statements. For years conservatives complained the court was too liberal with really no evidence to support it. I guess they meant "liberal" to mean that the court was backing away from its opinion that people were property. Now when Ginsberg does stuff like this or publicly speaks out against him like she did during the election it gives them legitimate ammunition that the court is too politicized and its decisions are based on personal politics rather than sound policy and precedent. The court gets smaller than what it could be and should be when the people see it as a political body.
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