Six years after President Barack Obama caused a stir by questioning the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling at a State of the Union address, he is likely to mention the court’s name Tuesday tonight. Whether controversy ensues is hard to predict.
One of the guests watching the address in First Lady Michelle Obama’s State of the Union box in the House chamber will be Jim Obergefell, the named plaintiff in the 2015 decision Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark ruling that struck down state bans on same-sex marriage. It’s the first time a president has invited a State of the Union guest primarily because of his or her involvement in a Supreme Court case since President Ronald Reagan began the practice in 1982.
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