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Supreme Court meme
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As was demonstrated in an interview with 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.
Ok, my read of the interview question was that Palin couldn't think of a single SCOTUS case that she would go on record as disagreeing with. But it's indicative of how uninformed (see how nice I was, right there?) Palin is that immediately upon reading this meme, my brain spat out a handful of SCOTUS cases; check this list and I bet you can pick out at LEAST one that she disagrees with, more if you want to be uncharitable in your estimation of her moral modernity:
1. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 - a dark spot in SCOTUS history, upholding racial segregation laws and introducing the whole "separate but equal" bullshit
2. Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 - Overturned Plessy and all similar segregation laws
3. Loving v. Virginia, 1967 - Overruled anti-miscegnation laws, making inter-racial marriage legal
4. Lawrence v. Texas, 2003 - Overturned anti-sodomy laws, making consensual private sexual acts between adults legal
5. Bush v. Gore, 2000 - um, DUH. HELLO SARAH PALIN, WHO IS PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW, AND WHY?
and now that I'm all riled up, I'll just add: Fuck you, Katherine Harris.
As was demonstrated in an interview with 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.
Ok, my read of the interview question was that Palin couldn't think of a single SCOTUS case that she would go on record as disagreeing with. But it's indicative of how uninformed (see how nice I was, right there?) Palin is that immediately upon reading this meme, my brain spat out a handful of SCOTUS cases; check this list and I bet you can pick out at LEAST one that she disagrees with, more if you want to be uncharitable in your estimation of her moral modernity:
1. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 - a dark spot in SCOTUS history, upholding racial segregation laws and introducing the whole "separate but equal" bullshit
2. Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 - Overturned Plessy and all similar segregation laws
3. Loving v. Virginia, 1967 - Overruled anti-miscegnation laws, making inter-racial marriage legal
4. Lawrence v. Texas, 2003 - Overturned anti-sodomy laws, making consensual private sexual acts between adults legal
5. Bush v. Gore, 2000 - um, DUH. HELLO SARAH PALIN, WHO IS PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW, AND WHY?
and now that I'm all riled up, I'll just add: Fuck you, Katherine Harris.
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