Supreme Court meme
From jdawgspi:
As was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any U.S. Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.
The Rules: Post info about ONE U.S. 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.
My choice: Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967). The Supreme Court declared that Virginia's law banning marriages between blacks and whites was unconstitutional:
Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival.... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discrimination. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.
As you may imagine, Loving (which also has the greatest case-name ever) is being heavily relied on now by advocates of gay marriage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia (Read the excerpt from Mrs. Loving's public statement on the 40th anniversary of the decision. It was so beautiful it gave me goosebumps.)
As was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any U.S. Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.
The Rules: Post info about ONE U.S. 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.
My choice: Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967). The Supreme Court declared that Virginia's law banning marriages between blacks and whites was unconstitutional:
Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival.... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment requires that the freedom of choice to marry not be restricted by invidious racial discrimination. Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State.
As you may imagine, Loving (which also has the greatest case-name ever) is being heavily relied on now by advocates of gay marriage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia (Read the excerpt from Mrs. Loving's public statement on the 40th anniversary of the decision. It was so beautiful it gave me goosebumps.)