Justice Stephen Breyer: 'Very Important' For Supreme Court To Attend State Of The Union

[NewsCaster]

WASHINGTON -- While Chief Justice John Roberts may have found last year's State of the Union address "troubling" for the public rebuke President Obama applied to the Supreme Court for its Citizens United decision, not everyone on the bench was disturbed.

Fellow Justice Stephen Breyer, in a rare television interview, said that he would attend the president's upcoming State of the Union address, and those thereafter. As for why, however, the reasoning was a bit surprising. It is important, Breyer explained, that in a visual society, people see that judges play a role in process of governance.

Justice Stephen Breyer: 'Very Important' For Supreme Court To Attend State Of The Union