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Four Supreme Court justices were absent during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night in front of both houses of Congress.
A review of footage of the area where Supreme Court justices sat during the speech show that Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Samuel Alito weren’t present. Sotomayor was appointed by former President Barack Obama, whereas the other three were appointed by former Presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump, respectively.
There were no public comments from the court or the individual justices about why they did not attend the event. The Epoch Times has contacted the Supreme Court for comment.
In Thomas’s case, the longtime justice has not been to any State of the Union speech since 2006. Thomas in 2010 explained his reasoning why during a speech to students.
“I don’t go because it has become so partisan and it’s very uncomfortable for a judge to sit there,” Thomas said at the Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida, in 2010, reported the Washington Examiner.
