Just in case you haven’t already heard about Palin’s epic failure when asked to name just one Supreme Court decision with which she disagrees, there’s a video of it here on CNN.com. (The video is seven minutes long but more than half of it is commentary in reaction to her answer, if you can call it an answer.)
I’ll be fair and state that I’d be hard-pressed to answer the same question on the spot. There have been cases that were at the time of enough interest to me that I followed the coverage and thought about the outcome, but now I’d have a hard time dredging up a specific example. But the point is that I’m not running for Vice President. I’m not vying to be second in command of the most powerful country on the planet. I’m not attempting to be next in line for control of the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. I’m not trying to get voted into a position that has considerable influence over the lives of every single American. It’s not part of my job requirement to be intimately acquainted with the role of the Supreme Court within this country’s goverment. It will never fall upon my shoulders to appoint one or more judges to this court–judges whose appointment lasts for many years, spanning the terms of many executive terms, and whose rulings can drastically alter the evolutionary path of law within this country. read more
