SOTU Live Blogging (Prelim Edition)

9:01 PM: I guess this has been evolving over a few years. But does anyone else find it jarring that the members of the hard-right faction on the Supreme Court simply don’t attend the State of the Union anymore? Roberts must feel, rightly, that as the senior official of one of the three branches of government he really must be there. But what about Scalia, Thomas and Alito?