Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor knows she’s an unlikely candidate to give a speech on gaming.

“If someone told me when I retired from court that I’d be talking at a conference about digital gaming, I’d think they’d had one drink too many,” O’Connor told the crowd of academics and gaming professionals.

Hearing Sandra Day O’Connor speak about video games and having one drink too many are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and may in fact be recommended.

O’Connor was discussing an educational game she is heading up called Our Courts, aimed at the middle school set. Sounds like it’s going to be a sort of Oregon Trail of the judicial branch. (”Your chief justice has died of dysentery. Reappoint?”)

Okay, I’m done riffing. Sorry, Mrs. O’Connor. You’re all right by me.

The part that caught my attention was that the game will use Morse v. Frederick as an example case. Morse v. Frederick is perhaps better known as the “BONG HiTS 4 JESUS” case, where a Jerkcity-channeling high school student unrolled a banner of the same phrase as television cameras filming the Olympic torch passed by.

The case is relevant to the target audience because it served to define how much free speech rights students are entitled when off school grounds. (Not much, as it turns out.)

As someone who advocates tweaking the nose of authority occasionally just for the sake of it, I’m gleeful that this dumb stunt is going to forever live on in an educational video game for the impressionable young.

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