When Texas Governor Rick Perry couldn’t remember the third government agency he would eliminate should he become president, one could chalk that up to “well, everybody has a mental freeze once-in-a-while.” When Perry couldn’t remember the name of a Supreme Court Justice or made a mistake in the number of judges on that Court, one could say “well, we all make mistakes.”
But what does one say when a presidential candidate, the Governor of Texas, does not remember an extremely important Supreme Court case that directly and profoundly affected the laws of his own state, while he was governor of that state?
Read, about the “Case that struck down Texas anti-sodomy law [that] doesn’t ring a bell with Perry” in the governor’s hometown newspaper — the Austin American-Statesman — here.
