{"id":16586,"date":"2010-06-30T11:07:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=16586"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:38:32","slug":"supreme-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/06\/supreme-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16658\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16658\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/YALOF_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16658  img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"David Yalof, associate professor of political science.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/YALOF_lg.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;David Yalof, Associate Professor of Political Science. Photo by Peter Morenus&lt;\/p&gt;\" width=\"205\" height=\"164\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 205px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 205\/164;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Yalof, associate professor of political science. Photo by Peter Morenus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With Senate confirmation hearings underway on the nomination of Elena Kagan to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, <em>UCONN Magazine<\/em> editor Ken Best discusses the nomination process with David Yalof, associate professor of political science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Yalof\u2019s book, <em>Pursuit<\/em> <em>of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees<\/em>, won the 1999 Newstadt Prize for Best Book on the Presidency from the American Political Science Association.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/David_Yalof 1.mp3\">Political science professor David Yalof discusses the Supreme Court nomination process<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn political science professor David Yalof discusses the Supreme Court nomination process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[55],"class_list":["post-16586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 06:23:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16586"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16771,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions\/16771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=16586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}