Take the VP Challenge: Can you name ANY SCOTUS decision other than Roe v Wade?

[.Shane.]

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link to my post where I add this in

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Source (no, its not st0rmfr0nt). TBH, I'm not familiar w/ this blogger, I got the link off google from a story a co-worked mentioned to me. He may be to the left, but so many conservatives are knocking her, he may be to the right...

Apparently, the next Palin-Couric interview installment will show that she cannot name ANY other Supreme Court decision, other than Roe v. Wade.

Can you? No googling. Off the top of my head, I can name ~8 correctly. Then again, I cannot see Russia from my house.

It goes from bad to worse.

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.

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

I don't normally jump the gun on these things and so I stand to be wrong if this doesn't come to pass. And, if so, Ecofarm and MobBoss can take me out behind the shed for jumping the gun. But I found this too shocking ... and embarassing.

 

[Sims2789]

Reynolds v. Sims

It ruled that primary elections for Governor of Georgia had to be done by popular vote, not with an electoral college system based on counties that underweighted more populous counties. The county unit system, as it was called, violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. Other cases around this time solidified the "one man, one vote" principle, ruling that electoral districts for state legislatures and that federal Congressional. One dissenting justice had the nerve to claim that the rulings threw out the federal Senate as unconstitutional, even though the Constitution explicitly states that each state elects two senators regardless of population. Thus, Fourteenth Amendment would have to explicitly state that it repeals the two senators clauses for the Senate in its current form to be unconstitutional.

And Reynolds v. Sims has my last name in it!

 

[MrPopov]

Brown vs Board of Education (I can't remember the state though) re: 14th ammendment guaranteeing equal rights for minorities.

After googling it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education

 

[.Shane.]

Maybe someone can hack guess here password reset and send here a link to this thread? Based on the first two replies it might actually be a good bit of source material to help her prep for the debate. Assuming she doesn't cancel due to not being able to find a sitter.

 

[Phlegmak]

Can you? No googling. Off the top of my head, I can name ~8 correctly. Then again, I cannot see Russia from my house.

I cannot! Does that make me a bad person?

 

[DNK]

Miranda v Cali?
Brown v BoE?

I'm bad with the states, and I'm bad with the decisions myself, but I'm not running for VP. I'm aware of decisions, but I was always bad with names. There was the recent one over strict gun bans in DC, but I don't know the name. The one way back that addressed wiretapping and electronic surveillance of homes, but I forget the name. The one over the detainee, but I forget the name...

 

[potatokiosk]

Gitlow v. New York, incorporated freedom of speech.

 

[shortguy]

Miranda v Cali?

Arizona, actually.

I can name a number from my con law class last semester, I just don't remember what they were about.

For my contribution to the cheat sheet, I'll go with Linkletter v. Walker.

 

[Murky]

Give Sarah a break. She might have just had a brain fart after eating all that moose.

edit: How could she forget Bush Vs. Gore a 5-4 decision that was so pivotal?

 

[Bill3000]

Brown Vs. BoE, Dread Scott, Lawrence vs. Texas, Marbury vs. Madison, Plessy vs. Ferguson, Miranda v. Arizona, DC vs. Heller, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and that's just at the top of my head.

 

[emzie]

If you pressed me to name a Supreme Court decision other than Roe v Wade, I might be able to name you two or three. If you asked me the question and gave me a few minutes to mull it, I could name ~ a dozen and describe many others (name isn't as important as the ruling).

First one that came to mind: Marbury v Madison. Though I thought the name was Mulbury

 

[Onionsoilder]

Personally I can only name three, Roe v.s. Wade, Brown v.s. Board of Education, and Marbury v.s. Madison.

 

[I'm Cleo!]

A ton, of course. For the cheat sheet, I'll name my favorite: West Virginia v. Barnette, and what I think is the most important: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer.

Cleo

 

[dutchfire]

No, I can't

 

[Dr.Mindbender]

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer

Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer

I guess everyone here is better qualified than Palin. Strange Country we live in these times.

 

[.Shane.]

If you pressed me to name a Supreme Court decision other than Roe v Wade, I might be able to name you two or three. If you asked me the question and gave me a few minutes to mull it, I could name ~ a dozen and describe many others (name isn't as important as the ruling).

Well the point is not to crucify her for not being able to rattle off Marbury vs. Madison or DC vs. Heller (recent major guns right case, which is surprising given her pro-gun credentials), but that her apparent inability to understand, reference, or comment on ANY OF THESE shows how woefully out of her depth she is.

Again, the context of the actual interview will be informative. Hopefully it will be released tonight.

 

[Gooblah]

Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board of Education
District of Colombia vs Smith (?)
Marbury v Madison
Dred Scott case
Miranda v Arizona

That's about it//

 

[emzie]

Well the point is not to crucify her for not being able to rattle off Marbury vs. Madison or DC vs. Heller (recent major guns right case, which is surprising given her pro-gun credentials), but that her apparent inability to understand, reference, or comment on ANY OF THESE shows how woefully out of her depth she is.

Yeah. Though it plays to her hockey mom personality! How many hockey moms understand the functioning of the government?!

... I have to wonder if she even understands the function of the Supreme Court.

 

[Gilder]

I probably couldn't name any, but she is a politician. The Supreme Court is pretty vital to the country when it comes down to it, and something an elected official should probably be more aware of than the average citizen.

 

[bigdog5994]

wasnt there a group of Native American that went to the Supreme Court? i dont know what it was called but i know Andrew Jackson overruled it or something and made them move to Oklahoma the Trail of Tears