{"id":7740,"date":"2021-05-10T18:37:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T18:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/?p=7740"},"modified":"2021-05-10T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T21:07:26","slug":"an-alternate-scotus-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2021\/an-alternate-scotus-portrait","title":{"rendered":"An Alternate SCOTUS Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The final interactive version of this project can be found here<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The introduction and context, with a nod to Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This project presents and reflects on the application of an alternate history of the U.S. Supreme Court, built from established ideological measurements and tenure data. The implementation of an 18-year term limit for Justices starting in 1970 is explored through case studies of five notable court decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallel heat maps chart the ideology of the Court for each year since 1971, in ‘Actual’ and ‘Alternate’ history. A representative Justice ideology value was calculated as a mean of each Justice’s annual Estimated Martin-Quinn Score, an established measure intended to communicate “the relative location of U.S. Supreme Court justices on an ideological continuum.” Color values were determined by sorting Justices since 1937 into quantiles. Alternate Justices were created based on previous appointments of the sitting President when vacancies occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The heat maps and second case study<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For each decade, a case study is presented, detailing majority and dissent, with Justice names applied in order from ‘leftmost’ to ‘rightmost.’ Hovering over a Justice reveals all color values from the heat map for that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hovering on the ring chart reveals Justice ideology.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Within each case study, selecting ‘Alternate’ toggles a timeline marker and reveals any potential (presumed) change in the decision, as well as and new Justices and their ideologies (on hover).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Corporate funding can be limited in this Alternate history.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Check out the full page<\/a> to explore the 50-year story (including a somewhat surprise ‘ending.’ In addition, a kind of sibling project examining Purple Values across the 50 states (and building on other work done with this one) can be found here<\/a>. \u2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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