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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5:Why is there one section of the audience at Obama's State of the Union that never stands up or applauds when everyone else does?

Edit: Thank you all for the quick responses! This was really puzzling me.
gpt
There are three groups in the chamber:

The democrats - they will rise in support of anything the president says, that they agree with (which is pretty much all of it)

The republicans - they will rise once or twice when Obama is talking about something they agree with

The supreme court - they will not rise for most of the speech, so as to remain impartial towards anything that could come before the court.