I noted in my last post that President Obama erred in suggesting that crime and incarceration had both decreased for the first time in forty years. The statistics are not yet in for 2014, and if the President was meaning to refer to 2013 (or any other year of his Presidency, for that matter), he was mistaken.
Six Supreme Court Justices attended the SOTU, including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The tradition is that Justices do not react during the speech, lest they be thought to be expressing either approval or dissent from what the head of the Executive Branch is saying. (Although sometimes the temptation is too much for a truth-insistent Justice to resist).
Justice Ginsburg did a first-rate job of keeping faith with that tradition.
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