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SUMMARY:Education Seminar: Making Sense of the Supreme Court
DESCRIPTION:Free and fair elections, desegregated schools, fair labor practices, cell phone data privacy, the line-item veto, climate change, pornography, abortion, the death penalty; this list barely scratches the surface of the significant political, social, moral, and scientific issues that the Supreme Court has helped to shape over the course of American history. Although less well understood than the other institutions of the federal government, the Supreme Court is no less responsible for shaping public policy than Congress or the Executive branch. Every year, the high court rules on a wide range of public and private actions. These rulings form the body of American constitutional law, the set of rulings that defines our Constitution and sets the course for the legal profession and lawmakers at all levels of government. Lower courts and lawmakers are bound to follow the Court’s rulings, as is every one of us. How does the Court determine which cases to hear? What explains why the justices sometimes reach very different decisions about the same case?  Should the size of the Supreme Court or the justices’ lifetime terms be changed?  How should allegations of questionable ethics be addressed? This seminar focuses on the Supreme Court’s history, procedures, and landmark rulings to address these and other pressing questions about the nation’s highest court.\nLauren C. Bell is the inaugural James L. Miller Professor of Political Science at Randolph-Macon College, where she also serves as Senior Advisor to the President for Mission Advancement.  The author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books, her peer-reviewed scholarship has also appeared in The Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, The Journal of Legislative Studies, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Social Science Quarterly, Judicature, Political Studies Review, and the Journal of the Society for American Music. She is a former U.S. Supreme Court fellow at the United States Sentencing Commission and a former American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary.\nListen to Lauren on Montpelier’s Consider the Constitution episodes:\nCongress by Design: How the Founders Built America’s Most Powerful Branch\nThe Foundation of Legislative Politics\n
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