MaggieMae
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Should they have walked out on Reagan too?
Try to follow this. The three cited Presidents were advocating a position they would like the court to pursue. Obama was critical of an actual decision. I happen to agree with the President's position. The disagreement comes with when and where he chose to make the statement.
Well initially, the USSC was only charged with deciding on the dispute over whether the Clinton movie should be regulated as a campaign ad. But it decided to take on the whole ball of wax regarding corporate influence on elections in general, and basically took on an issue that should be decided by Congress. (You know, that other branch of government.) If existing restrictions on corporations still remained in any new campaign reform bill, only then could it be challenged by bringing the issue to the Supreme Court.
You're probably right that the time and place were wrong, but then this is a year of not doing things by following protocol. No elected legislator ever shouted out YOU LIE when a president was speaking before a joint session of Congress before either.