the supreme court cases meme-
Oct. 1st, 2008 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mary_j_59Bluestocking79 had this one on her journal, and I am doing it and passing it on. Heres the meme:
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.
Of course, the first case that hopped into my head was Brown vs Board of Education, but I thought that was altogether too obvious - so I'm doing one of my personal favorites, Tinker vs Des Moines. What I can remember of the case and its implications is behind the cut:
The Tinkers were young teenagers, sincere pacifists, and one day during the 1960s they wore black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam war and were promptly suspended for being disruptive, etc.
They sued, arguing that (1) the armbands were political speech, which is the type of speech most clearly protected by the first amemdment, and (2) a school, being government property, was a public forum. Therefore, political speech should be allowed there. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where they won. In America, even children have a right to dissent and to peaceful protest. A school is a limited public forum; not all forms of speech are allowed there, but peaceful political protest can and should be allowed. Well, that's how I remember the case, anyway! Corrections are welcome, as always, and please
pass the meme on.
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.
Of course, the first case that hopped into my head was Brown vs Board of Education, but I thought that was altogether too obvious - so I'm doing one of my personal favorites, Tinker vs Des Moines. What I can remember of the case and its implications is behind the cut:
The Tinkers were young teenagers, sincere pacifists, and one day during the 1960s they wore black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam war and were promptly suspended for being disruptive, etc.
They sued, arguing that (1) the armbands were political speech, which is the type of speech most clearly protected by the first amemdment, and (2) a school, being government property, was a public forum. Therefore, political speech should be allowed there. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where they won. In America, even children have a right to dissent and to peaceful protest. A school is a limited public forum; not all forms of speech are allowed there, but peaceful political protest can and should be allowed. Well, that's how I remember the case, anyway! Corrections are welcome, as always, and please
pass the meme on.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2008-10-02 03:21 am (UTC)And thank goodness for that.
no subject
Date: 2008-10-03 02:42 am (UTC)But the main thing is that this meme, however badly worded it might seem, isn't about Palin. It's about our country and its laws. And I just really, really happen to like the Tinker case. That's all.
no subject
Date: 2008-10-03 03:31 am (UTC)http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/palin-v-supreme-court/#comments