Are you smarter than Sarah Palin? (meme)

She can’t name a Supreme Court case other than Roe vs. Wade. Can you?

Brown vs. Board of Education baby. Separate but equal… isn’t equal.

13 thoughts on “Are you smarter than Sarah Palin? (meme)

  1. fuzzyturtle

    Heller v. Washington D.C. was easily the most significant decision in the last decade or two. Given her culture, I’m surprised that she wasn’t aware of it.

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  2. japlady

    Love Vs Virginia, which is why the add virginia is for lovers always amused me

    edit: oops make that LOVING vs Virgina

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    1. japlady

      I’m amused, I studied two cases just this summer regarding exclusion of Asian Americans from citizenship and I can not for the life of me remember the names

      Edit: sometimes its not knowing the answer, but knowing what questions to ask.
      Takao Ozawa v. United States
      Chung Fook v. White
      Gong Lum v. Rice

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  3. joedecker

    I admit I spent a good fifteen minutes on this, I can’t say it was all off the cuff:

    Bush v. Gore — Who gets to be president
    Plessy v. Ferguson — Separate but Equal OK
    Brown v. Board of Education — Separate but Equal Not OK
    Griswold v. Connecticut — Got Condoms?
    Lawrence v. Texas — Sodomy Ho!
    Kelo v. City of New London — Property? Not Yours
    Dred Scott (was that v. Stanford? Sanford? something like that) — Citizenship? Not Yours
    Hustler v. Jerry Falwell — First amendment
    Miranda v. Arizona — “Miranda Rights”
    The Henry Miller decision (v. ?) First amendment

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    1. japlady

      oh yah, dred scott (embarrased I didn’t remember that)

      and bush v. gore…. yo mama

      Miranda of course, and the hustler case also embarrassed I forgot

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    2. terralthra

      Marbury v. Madison – the grandaddy, established the power of the SCOTUS

      Lawrence v. Ashcroft – legality of copyright extension
      Planned Parenthood of PA v. Casey – more abortion
      US v. Virginia – separate but equal for military training bases by sex unconstitutional (aka “the citadel case”)
      US v. Nixon – the President is not above the law
      Engel v. Vitale – School prayer
      Lemon v. Kurtzman – establishment clause, source of the “Lemon Test”
      Sony v. Universal – recording a copyrighted program to watch later protected

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  4. nicolle

    No. I can’t. I couldn’t even think of Brown vs BoE. I might not be smarter than SP, but I’m not running for VP. That’s one of the things that infuriates me most about people who seem to vote Republican: they’re voting for someone who “seems like themselves”. (Maybe it happens on the Dem side too but after a trail of glory like W and SP… I think the Repubs have got the market cornered.) I don’t want someone like me in office! I want someone smarter! And I’m pretty smart. Smart enough to know how stupid I am, which is more than I can say for most of America… *sigh* *grumble* *going to bed*

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