No, Madame Vice President, "Godzilla vs. Megalon" is not a Supreme Court case.

[heidi]

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.

My personal favorites are obviously IP cases:

Tasini v New York Times, which I was actually peripherally involved with when I was the contracts manager for the New York Times Electronic Media Company back in '95 and '96. Basically, it was a contracts and copyrights case where freelance writers fought the NY Times, Lexis/Nexis, Newsday and other publications to retain/regail (depending on your perspective) the copyright in the stories they wrote. While the publishers were allowed to replicate the articles within the paper, in toto and in contex (say, on microfilm) the authors had neither licensed nor assigned to them the right to reproduce or distribute the articles on their own.

Campbell v Acuff-Rose, aka the 2 LIve Crew vs Pretty Woman case, wherein Justice Souter goes off on bass riffs and the law of parody. A very important case for fanficcers, fanartists and vidders!

But I also have to make a quick mention of Bush v Gore. How can you be a politician and not know the details - or at least about the existence of - Bush v Gore?

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Also, Slate Magazine has a piece on diagramming Sarah Palin's sentences. Fun for the English major in you!

Comments

[ginsu.livejournal.com]

Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade

...that resulted in a verdict she doesn't like. That does change things a bit.

She might be an extremely well-informed fangirl of the Supreme Court who simply faps her way vigorously through Plessy v. Ferguson and Marbury v. Madison on a nightly basis. We have no way to know.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, depends on how you read the follow-up question - "Can you think of any?"

But to parse out the detritus of her reply to that question, she said, "But you know ... as a Vice President, [I] wouldn't be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today."

True, as VP she wouldn't, but the president certainly does have the ability to try to change the Supreme Court, both by who is named to the court if vacancies arise, and in deciding what cases to have the Justice Department take all the way to the Court.

And if you really think that she would agree with Ashcroft v ACLU or Lawrence v. Texas, I have a bridge in Alaska to sell you. :D

[ginsu.livejournal.com]

And if you really think that she would agree with Ashcroft v ACLU or Lawrence v. Texas

Oh, what I think is that she might be functionally illiterate.

I'm just not ready to draw conclusions, the way Olbermann did last night; many times, he left out the bit about "that she disagrees with" and just claimed that Palin couldn't name any other Supreme Court cases.

My opinion is that Palin has hung herself so completely, there's no need to tighten the noose.