Palin and the Court

[logodaedaly]

From ginilizAs evidenced by Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade

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[thunders_voice]

I'd have to go with Brown v. Board of Education, bringing about integrated education (and dismissing the notion of "separate but equal")!

I can understand how it would be hard to pull out names and dates and such on the spot, but still. Yikes.

[logodaedaly]

There are a lot of cases I can understand even politicians not knowing about in details (I only know about Marbury v Madison because I'm married to a lawyer), but I am honestly kind of agog that Palin couldn't come up with at least Brown v Board. Not being able to think of that case, for a fairly educated person, strikes me as just beyond bizarre. A "what planet do you live on?" kind of moment...

[pyro_rebel]

Or even Griswold v Connecticut, which I'd expect she'd know since so many hard-core anti-choice people are also anti-conception.

On a completely different note, I have to cram some serious Russian in the next two months. You wouldn't have any website/book/tips to recommend, would you?

[biolabchick]

Mine would have to be Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. It's an important case in the "global struggle against violent extremism", and it's fairly recent (I believe that the Court just ruled on it in 2006).