{"id":309,"date":"2013-10-01T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/?p=309"},"modified":"2015-09-30T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T14:22:19","slug":"the-court-transformed-how-it-happened-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/2013\/10\/01\/the-court-transformed-how-it-happened-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Court Transformed:  How It Happened; Why It Matters&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_316\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/files\/2013\/11\/gnelson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316\" alt=\"Garrison Nelson, Professor of Political Science\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/files\/2013\/11\/gnelson.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Garrison Nelson, Professor of Political Science<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has undergone a major transformation over the course of its 224-year history. Between 1789 and 1962, 47 percent of appointees to the Court had held major political posts in their pre-Court careers.\u00a0 Over the past fifty years, presidents have predominantly filled Court vacancies with federal judges having clearly confirmed conservative track records.\u00a0 This has altered the national perception of the court and led to its diminished public reputation.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Court Transformed: How it Happened; Why it Matters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/artsandsciences\/online_lectures\/2013-10-01_Nelson,Garrison\/GarrisonN.mp4\">Video (MP4, Large File)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/artsandsciences\/online_lectures\/2013-10-01_Nelson,Garrison\/GarrisonN.mp3\">Audio (MP3)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Professor Nelson<\/b>\u00a0has been a UVM Faculty member since 1968.\u00a0 He is the editor, author, and co-author of ten books, most recently the seven-volume<i>\u00a0Committees in the U.S. Congress, 1789-2010<\/i>;\u00a0<i>The Austin-Boston Connection:\u00a0 Five Decades of<\/i>\u00a0<i>House Democratic Leadership 1937-1989<\/i>\u00a0(2009); and\u00a0<i>Pathways to the Supreme Court:\u00a0 From the Arena to the Monastery\u00a0<\/i>(forthcoming).\u00a0 He is the author of many articles in both scholarly journals and the popular press,\u00a0 and he is a widely quoted political commentator.\u00a0 He was a 2009 recipient of the Kroepsch-Maurice Teaching Excellence Award.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>Dean\u2019s Lecture Series<\/b>\u00a0was established in 1991 as a way to recognize and honor colleagues in the College of Arts and Sciences who have consistently demonstrated the ability to translate their professional knowledge and skill into exciting classroom experiences for their students \u2014 faculty who meet the challenge of being both excellent teachers and highly respected professionals in their own discipline.\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">The Award is a celebration of the unusually high quality of our faculty and has become an important and treasured event each semester.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has undergone a major transformation over the course of its 224-year history. Between 1789 and 1962, 47 percent of appointees to the Court had held major political posts in their pre-Court careers.\u00a0 Over the past fifty years, presidents have predominantly filled Court vacancies with federal judges having clearly confirmed conservative track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[616],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deans-lecture-award-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/compute-cas-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}