Justices at SOU?

The State of the Union is tonight at 6 p.m. The Wall St. Journal has Why Samuel Alito Shuns the State of the Union -- He found the partisan spectacle distasteful even before Obama’s inaccurate declamation about the Supreme Court in 2010.

Justice Alito isn’t the first member of the court to shun the State of the Union. John Paul Stevens never attended. Antonin Scalia last went in 1997, Clarence Thomas in 2006. “It has turned into a childish spectacle,” Scalia said in 2013. “I don’t want to be there to lend dignity to it.”

Pepperdine Law School announces the creation of its Ken Starr Institute for Faith, Law, and Public Service -- The Ken Starr Institute for Faith, Law, and Public Service cultivates a community of scholars dedicated to the pursuit of justice, upholding the rule of law, and serving the nation and the world with integrity and compassion through the lens of faith. Inspired and energized by the life and legacy of legal scholar, public servant, and former Caruso School of Law dean Ken Starr, the Ken Starr Institute enhances the components of the Pepperdine University mission for which Starr cared so deeply and reinforces the fundamental American values that contribute to the success of a flourishing society.