Palin can't name a US Supreme Court case other than Roe v. Wade?
She went blank, couldn't give a response, nothing, nada? Moose in headlights?
from politico about the Couric interview:
After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases.
There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence.
What about the litigation involving the Valdez decided June 25, 2008 (while she was governor)? The litigation that began in 1989, that has been on going for 19 years and that actually impacted her state and her citizens? Is her memory that crappy. The most important litigation involving the citizens of the State of Alaska and the Oil & Gas Industry in Alaska and she couldn't name it? What kind of governor does that make her, what type of Oil & Gas/Energy expert?
EXXON SHIPPING CO. v. BAKER (No. 07-219)
472 F. 3d 600 and 490 F. 3d 1066, vacated and remanded.
In 1989, petitioners’ (collectively, Exxon) supertanker grounded on a reef off Alaska, spilling millions of gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound. The accident occurred after the tanker’s captain, Joseph Hazelwood—who had a history of alcohol abuse and whose blood still had a high alcohol level 11 hours after the spill—inexplicably exited the bridge, leaving a tricky course correction to unlicensed subordinates. Exxon spent some $2.1 billion in cleanup efforts, pleaded guilty to criminal violations occasioning fines, settled a civil action by the United States and Alaska for at least $900 million, and paid another $303 million in voluntary payments to private parties. Other civil cases were consolidated into this one, brought against Exxon, Hazelwood, and others to recover economic losses suffered by respondents (hereinafter Baker), who depend on Prince William Sound for their livelihoods. At Phase I of the trial, the jury found Exxon and Hazelwood reckless (and thus potentially liable for punitive damages) under instructions providing that a corporation is responsible for the reckless acts of employees acting in a managerial capacity in the scope of their employment. In Phase II, the jury awarded $287 million in compensatory damages to some of the plaintiffs; others had settled their compensatory claims for $22.6 million. In Phase III, the jury awarded $5,000 in punitive damages against Hazelwood and $5 billion against Exxon. The Ninth Circuit upheld the Phase I jury instruction on corporate liability and ultimately remitted the punitive damages award against Exxon to $2.5 billion.
Will McCain's camp try to blame her inability to answer on "gotcha journalism"?