She's no Elle Woods.
Oct. 1st, 2008 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jessipsaloquiturA legal meme! *geeks out* But mostly, as these things tend to be, this is just a highly effective procrastination device on my part. *g* Also, I have NO DOUBT that everyone on my flist is infinitely smarter than Sarah Palin, so let's see those smarts!
As evidenced by 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 flist, feel free to take the meme to your own LJ to spread the fun.
Show me your legal briefs! *g*
Here are some of mine: In 2005, in Mayle v. Felix, the Supreme Court reversed a Ninth Circuit decision that I had written the opinion for during my clerkship. You'd think this would bother me, but, really, I had called the reversal. The case involved a procedural question about the timing of a petition for habeas corpus. I thought it should be decided one way; my judge disagreed. I did what clerks do and presented all the arguments and legal authority for my oh-so-wise opinion and he did what judges do and decided the case the way he saw it. It was still "my" case though, so I wrote the initial draft of the opinion and it ended up being published almost exactly as I penned it, only to be reversed the next year when the Supreme Court agreed with me! \o/
Another favorite of mine: Marbury v. Madison, (1803), which formed the basis for judicial review in our legal system. So, you know, despite the Conservative rhetoric about the evil of judges who "legislate from the bench," the basic principle of judicial interpretation of the law and the Constitution, well, it's sort of been around for a while and it's sort of an important part of what we like to call check and balances.
[Poll #1270746]
As evidenced by 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 flist, feel free to take the meme to your own LJ to spread the fun.
Show me your legal briefs! *g*
Here are some of mine: In 2005, in Mayle v. Felix, the Supreme Court reversed a Ninth Circuit decision that I had written the opinion for during my clerkship. You'd think this would bother me, but, really, I had called the reversal. The case involved a procedural question about the timing of a petition for habeas corpus. I thought it should be decided one way; my judge disagreed. I did what clerks do and presented all the arguments and legal authority for my oh-so-wise opinion and he did what judges do and decided the case the way he saw it. It was still "my" case though, so I wrote the initial draft of the opinion and it ended up being published almost exactly as I penned it, only to be reversed the next year when the Supreme Court agreed with me! \o/
Another favorite of mine: Marbury v. Madison, (1803), which formed the basis for judicial review in our legal system. So, you know, despite the Conservative rhetoric about the evil of judges who "legislate from the bench," the basic principle of judicial interpretation of the law and the Constitution, well, it's sort of been around for a while and it's sort of an important part of what we like to call check and balances.
[Poll #1270746]
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Date: 2008-10-02 06:34 am (UTC)What I loved about Lawrence v. Texas was not only that it struck down anti-sodomy laws, thereby removing any "illegality" from homosexual relationships, but it cited Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade, and so strengthened those cases (about contraception and abortion, respectively, and I know you know that, but someone else may not *g*), and the general protection of privacy as a constitutionally guaranteed right.
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Date: 2008-10-02 12:21 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's a little scary that she's up for VP.