SCOTUS Meme
Oct. 2nd, 2008 07:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladynox25
From turnberryknkn:
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.
Marbury vs. Madison
This one I remember from Government class in high school. Marbury wanted a commission that he felt he was owed and took then-President Madison to court. As I am not a legal scholar nor lawyer, I'm not familiar with exactly what statutes were debated, but I do know that this was the case that firmly established the Supreme Court's, well, supremacy. Which supremacy (and independence from the other branches) probably had a lot to do, if you think about it, with the stability of the American political process, especially early on.
Wikipedia's entry on the case.
turnberryknkn: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.
Marbury vs. Madison
This one I remember from Government class in high school. Marbury wanted a commission that he felt he was owed and took then-President Madison to court. As I am not a legal scholar nor lawyer, I'm not familiar with exactly what statutes were debated, but I do know that this was the case that firmly established the Supreme Court's, well, supremacy. Which supremacy (and independence from the other branches) probably had a lot to do, if you think about it, with the stability of the American political process, especially early on.
Wikipedia's entry on the case.
