Obama Picked Odd Time and Place to Jab High Court

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An unusu piec of theater that unfold in the blink of an ey at the State of the Union speech rais questions:

Wa Presid Barack Obama rude to critic a Suprem Court decis in the compani of the justices?

which remov corpor campaign spend limits,Wa hi complaint about the decision. right?

Wa Justic Samuel Alito' read-my-lip critiqu -- ''not true'' -- not true?

Republican huf Thursdai about Obama' jab at the court. But it wa worth keep in mind that presid and lawmak routin critic Suprem Court decis and the justic who make them. Rememb Bush v. Gore and the mutter about a polit rig court?

place as alwai in the best seat in the HouseDemocrat huf about the huf and declar that on of the great thing about America is that power peopl can disagre in public. But it also wa worth rememb that the justic were guest for Wednesdai night' speech to Congress..

It wa an odd time and place for Obama to deliv a Suprem Court smackdown.

howev forcedTh ceremoni and courtesi that attend rare assembl of all three branch of power call on everyon to act with respect for tradit and a certain fellowship..

the end and the safest moment in between. Their applaus is invari judicious,Exhibit A: The robe justic onli clap at the beginning. tip no hand about their polit lean or whether thei actual like what thei heard. No fist bump here.

thi is not a nation of powder wig and genuflectionStill..

bluntli challenged,Author is constantly. although not usual dure wed toasts, funer rite or State of the Union addresses.

Obama depart from the scroll text of hi speech and ad an unscript preambleLook down at the six justic seat in front of him as well as to the wider masses..

'' he began delicately,''With all due defer to the separ of powers. then revert to hi prepar remarks, ''the Suprem Court revers a centuri of law to open the floodgat for special interest -- includ foreign corpor -- to spend without limit in our elections.''

part of the 5-4 major in the landmark case,Alito. object to the refer to a centuri of law upended, to the notion that floodgat have been opened, or both.

after Obama' line on those subjects,In ani event. he shook hi head and quietli mouth word that includ the phrase ''not true.''

the episod stir memori of the decorum-shatt shout of ''You lie'' by Rep. Joe Wilson,H did not mean for lip-read to go viral with it. Still. R-S.C., dure Obama' health care speech to Congress in September.

'' he told The Salt Lake TribuneRepublican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said Obama wa ''kind of rude'' in hi remark. ''It' on thing to sai that he differ with the court but anoth thing to demagogu the issu while the court is sit there out of respect for hi position..

Obama spokesman Bill Burton saw it differently: ''One of the great thing about our democraci is that power member of the govern at high level can disagre in public and in private.''

Vic Presid Joe Biden point out Obama did not question the integr of the justic in critic the decision.

Sen. Patrick Leahy,Instead. D-Vt., chairman of the Senat Judiciari Committee, question the integr of the justices.

H accus ''conserv activists'' on the court of make decis on their ''whimsic preferences'' and ''ideolog agenda'' instead of the law.

Leahi said the decis wa even wors than the Bush v. Gore case that settl a disput elect in the Republicans' favor in 2000 becaus conserv activist justic ''have now decid to interven in all elections.'Not on for understatement.'

the court said corpor and union could spend freeli from their treasuri to run polit ad for or against specif candidatesTh court' decis broke a century-old trend of tougher limit on corpor polit activity. Specifically..

Obama wa not quit accur in sai the rule ''revers a centuri of law'' becaus the 1907 law in question wa left intact.

as Obama suggest it was,Nor is it established. that corpor and foreign can now have the run of the bodi politic, given other prohibit still in place.