Barack Obama: Supreme Court

Martin Luther King Jr Dept: Obama's glitzy public swearing-in at the majestic Capitol building, featuring pop star Beyonce singing the national anthem, took place on the national holiday devoted to revered civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, according to Montreal Gazette. One of Obama's appointees to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, administered the oath to Vice President Joe Biden on Monday as the president beamed. Roberts, who famously flubbed the oath of office in 2009, swore in Obama without any hitches this time and wASHINGTON - President Barack Obama took the oath of office for the second time in as many days on Monday, this time before as many as 800,000 jubilant Americans who cheered as he urged Americans to come together and uphold cherished U.S. principles of justice and equality. On Sunday, the country's first African-American president was sworn in by John Roberts, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, during an intimate ceremony at the White House. That's because the U.S. Constitution requires presidents take the oath of office on Jan. 20; when it falls on a Sunday, the public festivities are held the next day. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.