For the first Time in more than 20 years, three of the nine justices of the U.S. Federal Supreme Court were absent at the Jan. 20 inauguration of Joe Biden as president of the United States. It is customary for Supreme Court justices to attend the inauguration of a new president.
The three justices absent from this year’s presidential inauguration were Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Stephen Breyer.
High Court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg said the three justices chose not to attend Biden’s inauguration because of the health risks posed to them by the Communist Party’s viral Epidemic.
But two of the three justices who missed the president’s inauguration are at odds with Biden, according to an analysis by the media outlet La Belle Journal. They are conservative Justices Thomas and Alito.
Biden had tried to block then-President George W. Bush Jr.’s nomination of Alito to the bench while he was a U.S. senator. Biden reasoned at the time that Alito’s positions were too conservative. And at the time of Thomas’ nomination, Biden, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, tried to force him to take a stand on sensitive issues such as abortion during a hearing. Thomas made it even clear in his autobiography, “My Grandfather’s Son,” that Biden was not to be trusted.
Six other justices attended Biden’s inauguration, including three conservative justices nominated by former President Trump (Trump), Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Judge Gorsuch.
Notably, on December 8 of last year, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took the state governments of four swing states – Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin – to the U.S. Supreme Court over fraud and lawbreaking that occurred during the 2020 presidential election. on December 11, the Supreme Court voted 7-2 to dismiss the case, with only Justices Thomas and Alito upheld the high court’s taking of the case.
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