President Barack Obama had some harsh words for the Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down a key campaign-finance provision during his State of the Union address tonight, and Justice Samuel Alito looked none too pleased.
“With all due deference to separation of powers,” the president said, “last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.”
While Obama finished that line, the camera panned to the Supreme Court justices who were sitting in the front row of the chamber. Alito cringed, pursed his lips, shook his head from side to side in apparent disagreement and mouthed words that sure looked a lot like “definitely not true.” He kept shaking his head from side to side and made a somewhat sour face while many around him stood and applauded.
Here’s the video:
