The Supreme Court: RIP Literally Everything

Slighted · February 22, 2024, 10:41pm

one third of lawyers makes me feel bad. that seems so low, but probably true.

LFS · February 22, 2024, 10:53pm

Make the bet “how many can name TWO justices”. I think that’s like 5%.

Full disclosure I just blanked on Kagan.

hey_you · February 22, 2024, 11:04pm

Here are the 9, off the top of my head and sans google:
Sotomayor
Kavanaugh
Sleepy
Grumpy
Dopey
Donner
Blitzen
The Professor and
MaryAnn

suzzer99 · February 22, 2024, 11:07pm

The two I’d like to see die soon (JUST KIDDING!)
The three that will outlive me
The one that I’d love to see replaced by a Dem, and shit myself if replaced by a RWNJ
The other three that don’t matter much right now

LFS · February 22, 2024, 11:08pm

You forgot this lady

laura-linney-ozark

nunnehi · February 22, 2024, 11:09pm

Must be so they can’t look like Santa

m_reed05 · February 23, 2024, 12:50am

I’d be surprised if I know 1 person irl that could name all 9 justices, besides myself.

clovis8 · February 23, 2024, 1:10am

I’d guess less than 50% of practicing lawyers could name all 9.

Melkerson · February 23, 2024, 2:47am

If true, my sample is skewed. I don’t know a single one who couldn’t.

Bigoldnit · February 23, 2024, 5:28am

If true, I’d finally be above average. Sweet!

I had to take a second to make sure I wasn’t mixing up Gorsuch and Garland, but the rest were pretty easy.

suzzer99 · February 23, 2024, 5:31am

I just did a dry run. I can’t remember Sotomayor (Maria?) or Keegan’s (Elena?) first name and I’m totally blanking on the newest judge that Biden confirmed. I can remember all the Rs though because they’re destroying the country.

Er looks like it’s Kagan. Not sure if that counts.

Coasterbrad · February 23, 2024, 5:49am

My best attempt

Sonya Sotomayor
Elena Kagan
Kentani Jackson?
Amy Comy(?) Barret
Samuel(?) Alito
Thomas (totally blanking on first name)
Neil Gorsuch
Brett Kavanaugh
John(?) Roberts

Im like 70% confident I got them right. I think less than 5% of us adults could name all 9.

amead · February 23, 2024, 5:53am

5% of 1% might stil be way high.

nunnehi · February 23, 2024, 5:59am

Kagan
Sotomayor
Jackson
Thomas
Alito
Roberts
Gorsuch
Kavanaugh
Barrett

Melkerson · February 23, 2024, 6:06am

Yeah, this. But I’m a stickler. I’d have counted both suzzer and coasterbrad above wrong. Suzzer for Keegan/Kagan and brad for Ketani instead of Ketanji. I’ll give him ‘Comy’ since it is phonetically close enough. I’d also require first names, so no Clarence is a problem.

That would also void nunnehi’s entry also, but that post has the look of someone who would get the first names if required. So, he would probably pass.

eyebooger · February 23, 2024, 12:28pm

Snap taking the over.

That’s like 125,000 people. There are enough politics junkies and general trivia nerds to get above that number.

econophile · February 23, 2024, 1:10pm

Liberals are easier to keep track of because there are only three

Conservatives are harder:

Dopey
Rapey
Jesusy
Waspy
Greedy
Hacky

TrollyWantACracker · February 23, 2024, 1:43pm

Really hard to remember all the justices because they look and dress pretty much the same. They should have their names on their uniforms like baseball players do, would really help people remember imo.

Bigoldnit · February 23, 2024, 1:56pm

Plus they could have patches for all their corporate sponsors.

superuberbob · February 23, 2024, 2:01pm

I was wondering what was up with that.

I just watch pirated copies that pop up on YT now. Sure the sound is horrible and there are random zoom ins but I get the point.