And I don't want to belabor this, but if you lookatthetime frame of number of days between the announcement of a Supreme Court pick and the hearings, for the last nine confirmed justices it's been 51 days between the announcement and the beginning of the hearing.
Sometimes the State of the Union address can be an opportunity for a president to take a risk, to set out an objective for the nation that might be controversial or might look impossible atthetime, but which challenges Congress and the citizens to repair broken parts of society.