Palin on Supreme Court Decisions
In the latest (and I believe last) segment of Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric to be released by CBS, Palin is asked which decisions by the Supreme Court she disagrees with, besides Roe vs. Wade. Palin is unable to name any.
I’ll admit that I don’t know the names of all the cases that are out there, so I could see if she had trouble with that. But not able to describe a case. Even one? I’ll name one. Town of New London vs. Kelo. I swear, I didn’t look it up before I wrote it here. Maybe it’s because it came out of my state, I’m a little biased toward it, but it’s still a case.
Here’s the problem. She’s about to debate Joe Biden tomorrow and I think it’s more than likely she’ll have to make the point that Biden and Obama shouldn’t be allowed to appoint “activist” judges to the bench. I think she’ll need to make a convincing case should this happen, and knowing something about cases that have been previously decided by liberal-leaning justices.
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She was asked which decision she disagreed with. As governor she went on record for opposing supreme court decisions, but maybe she was afraid of a ‘gotcha’ question here.
Biden named a law he drafted which was struck down by the Supreme Court for being unconstitutional. He disagrees with the constitution? Maybe the follow up question to him should have been: if there’s a bill you need to sign into law which you don’t agree with, but is mandated by the constitution, would you do it?
(Palin has already done this, I suppose Biden has no experience with such decisions)