it comes but once a year for politics junkies, it is the christmas and new year s and arbor day and obscure state specific holiday you can t really remember the reason for rolled into one. it is state of the union night, and we are so happy that you re here with us for it. here s a live look at the u.s. capital tonight. members of both chambers of congress, guess, supreme court justices, cabot secretaries, admirals, ambassadors, they re all gathering to hear this big heavy on the pomp and circumstance annual address the president of the united states. on the other end of pennsylvania avenue of the white house, we are watching for president biden to part from the white house for the capital. the is expected shortly. i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters. joined by my colleagues of chris hayes, joy reid, nicole wallace, alex wagner and ari melber. i also do mean it when i say thank you for being home with us. we know you had every choice in the world were to watch thi
Shouting at president obama during one of his state of the union addresses. i think that is correct. that was president obama attacking the citizens united ruling, and alito saying, no exaggeratedly. it sets the context for what president biden might say tonight about the court at large. and we were talking about the court before, but the other thing going on is unpopular decisions, and also some of this pile public dialogue between justice kagan and miss roberts there, competing events. they ve talked about the perceived legitimacy of the court, and then the very difficult public recording about ethics issues, just for justice thomas, in terms of not recusing from cases in which his wife was playing a material role, but also recently about justice roberts. his wife, having a job in which effectively the first lady, jill biden, trying to take her seat in the visiting box that