SCOTUS/Palin meme

[asimplechord]

From celandineb, who saw it elsewhere.

As was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.

(Even in secondary schools, US history classes teach about landmark Supreme Court cases. Palin's ignorance appalls me more than I can express.)

So. The meme: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your LJ to spread the knowledge. Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade. Or comment here with one.

My first thought? Brown v. Board of Education (of somewhere in Kansas, I think), which declared segregation illegal. This was a direct contravention of an early SCOTUS decision, although I can't remember the name of that particular case.

ETA: From Wikipedia's entry:

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, which overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, by declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9-0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This victory paved the way for integration and the civil rights movement.

Comments

[supergrover24.livejournal.com]

Is there proof of this? I've only seen a spoof.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

I only saw a couple of clips of the interview, and none of what I saw included the SCOTUS/RvW bit.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

OK, upon further review:

Of concern to McCain's campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin's interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing.

The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.

After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases.

There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence.

Source (http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/In_reintroduction_Palin_to_do_more_interviews_and_tell_her_story.html?showall). A political blog. Could be fake or a spoof, I guess. But why would a McCain aide make their own candidate look bad?

[supergrover24.livejournal.com]

Huh. Thanks. I'm really curious about this.

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Couric's question and Palin's response. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn9WduykYpA)