I gotta agree with Chief Justice John Roberts in regard to the State of the Union Address--how it's become a political pep rally. The justices sit there surrounded by hooting and hollering Congressmen, and are by tradition expected to remain stone-faced, expressionless--even as the President criticizes them for a recent decision.

Obama was wrong to criticize the Supreme Court in that atmosphere (and wrong in how he characterized their decision, apparently). And Roberts was right to say, "To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, I'm not sure why we are there."