Memes and sheep and politics.

Infected by zoethe and multiplexer, in honor of Sarah Palin being stumped by Katie Couric when she asked the Vice Presidential candidate to name any Supreme Court decision 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.

It's staid and stock and everybody probably thought of it and rejected it as too obvious, but I'll confess a weakness for the classics, and I'm going to go with "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). The Warren Court returned an unequivocal, 9-0 decision that "seperate but equal" educational facilities were a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Separate, the court contended, was innately unequal, and black boys and girls had a right to the same educational opportunities as white boys and girls.

This case was one of the landmarks and provided a huge part of the foundation for what would become the Civil Rights Movement. It's one of the most famous legal decisions of all time, and certainly one of the landmark precedents in American law.

That it didn't occur to Governor Palin is odd, isn't it? One suspects it was a momentary lapse and nothing more.