[ClearCase_guy]

I have my doubts about this.

Perry was speaking about prayer in school. He mentioned 8 judges.
Afterwards, his team did some research, had to go back as far as 1963, and found a case involving Bible reading in school (close enough, right?) that was decided 8-to-1. And then Team Perry announces that this is what Gov. Perry was talking about.

I dunno ...

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Look at the partial transcript in Post #6.

[newzjunkey]

Except Perry mentioned a case from 1962. Did he just pull that era out of thin air or did he really have that case in mind when he referenced the eight?

To me it's a non-story. The press played "gotcha" where "gotcha" wasn't appropriate. Perry clearly referenced the case his campaign later specified. This is just an instance of lazy hack "journalism."

[Tribune7]

If the issue was important to you, you're going to likely understand that there were two decisions which radically tilted the philosophical grounding of our public education system to accidentalist, atheistic relativism -- Engel v. Vitale which banned school prayer in 1962 on a 6-1 vote and Abington Township V. Schempp which banned Bible readings in 1963 on an 8-1 vote.

So "Team Perry" was likely not doing after-the-fact CYA in explaining the reference to 8 judges.