Palin Meme

[liralen]

Stolen from summer_queen:

The Meme: As evidenced by Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.

The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN lj to spread the fun.

How about Loving v. Virginia (1967)?

I always loved that the plaintiffs' name were so appropriate to the case.

Comments

[rmd.livejournal.com]

ah! i had seen the meme going around without an explanation of why.

really, if she's really an evangelical and can name roe, she should be able to name griswold v connecticut -- that's what they're going after next.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Ah ha! Yeah... better with the reason why, I think...

[ouraboros.livejournal.com]

Aaagh! She should have been able to state

BUSH v. GORE

off the top of her head!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

You'd think, wouldn't you?

[beckyb.livejournal.com]

Well, she was asked for another one she disagreed with. She probably agreed with that one.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Ah ha! I see the additional information I wasn't given. Thank you. That would then make a lot more sense than what I'd gotten. Whew.

Creationism struck down

[ouraboros.livejournal.com]

Edwards v. Aguillard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_v._Aguillard). But if she did that, every independent would certainly turn against her, although a vast majority already are due to her inarticulateness. I think she is doing dog whistle politics though, and is largely there to turn out the base for all the downticket Republican races.

[writeanya.livejournal.com]

ha! you picked my favorite case, for the same reason. Mildred just died, actually right around the time that CA made gay marriage legal.

I sure hope that some day we look back on same-sex weddings the same way we do with interracial ones. "Whu? People used to not be able to marry their partners because of a ... law?"

N and I would have been SOL not so long ago...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Exactly... *grins* I'm glad that I found a favorite of yours. *smiles*

*hugs* it'll be cool if the world is just that much better in 40 years the way it is better now than it was 40 years ago.

[blinkingrune.livejournal.com]

You know, I can't name one. I really can't. It's hard for me. I can describe some, though. Does that make me any good? XP

There's one case I studied where a man said "no" to a consent to search, and the wife said "yes."

I studied another one where police asked a woman if they could investigate an apartment, and she said yes. She had a key, and she let them in and showed them around. Only, she wasn't living there anymore, so the guy sued.

Then there was the religion one...about a girl, I think her name was Wanda, who was wearing a pentagram as her religion does. Only, gangs did, too, so the school freaked...

The Vietnam Black-Armbands of Peace case...

Tons of religious ones come to mind...

Sorry, I'm mostly going off topic so I can try to remember what I learned about Search and Seizure.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's okay. It's kind of cool to see which ones you've studied, though. I definitely think it's good.