Does Sarah Palin not know any U.S. Supreme Court cases but Roe v. Wade? The media has put the spotlight on our politicians’ knowledge of the law as of late. When I heard about the purported Palin gaffe, I had to ask myself: Could you name off the top of your head some Supreme Court decisions that you disagree with? I wasn’t too quick to the punch myself.

Obvious members of the anti-canon are Plessy v. Ferguson, Dred Scott, and Korematsu v. United States. Then there are those decisions loved by some and hated by others, such as Roe v. Wade, Lochner v. New York, and Griswold v. Connecticut. If I were a politician, I think I could navigate these trecherous waters, but you’d have to give me a second to think about it.

It’s great to see the myriad ways people use Enfacto to educate themselves and their friends on the law. On policywank, we’ve got someone using Enfacto to educate their friends and Sarah Palin about their own personal take on the most shameful Supreme Court decision. A student is researching the development of the law surrounding housing segregation for a college history paper. And a high school history teacher makes the full-text of Marbury v. Madison to his students so they can read it for themselves and draw their own conclusions from the primary source.