US Supreme Court Meme (from rivers_bend)

[deelaundry]

The Rules: Post info about ONE US Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.)

I admit I had to go look up the name (promise if I run for second highest office in the land, I'll memorize the most important cases to me).

Loving v. Virginia (1967) was the case in which the US Supreme Court declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional. The effect was to end all race-based legal restriction on marriage in the United States.

Comments

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Loving v. Virginia is an interesting choice.

I have to admit the only case besides Roe v. Wade I could think of off the top of my head is Brown v. Board of Education.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Loving v. Virginia has come up a lot lately due to discussion of same-sex marriage. It was rather doofy of me to have forgotten the name.

Wikipedia has a list of major US Supreme Court cases, and it's really fascinating to look back. Things change so much over time.

[warmdarkwoman.livejournal.com]

Loving v. Virginia is the reason I'm able to be married to my wonderful husband. *squishes it*

I'm still mad that she didn't think of Plessy v. Ferguson or Brown v. Board of Education. I mean, really.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I added in the date for Loving v. Virginia, because some people don't realize how recent that was. Some of the same derogatory things that are said about same-sex relationships were being said, out loud, by government officials and others in power, only a generation ago about interracial relationships.

*squishes you and your husband* I love hearing about happy relationships. *happy sigh*

Palin digs herself deeper into a hole with everything she says, or is not able to say. Today I read that she she said she's eager for the debate because the press has been censoring her comments. What? What? What?

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

How would she know the press is censoring her comments?

After all, she can't name a single news source (http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/10/01/palin-reads-all-the-papers/).

Gah.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

You know, but it's "gotcha" journalism to ask her to name one! Who's asked Obama this same question? Nobody! And nobody's asked him to name a Supreme Court decision, either! !!!111!!One!!


You know, when RSL rambles and says nonsensical things and seems totally out of touch with today's world, it's cute. It's cute. When a major party VP candidate does it... not so much.