The Supreme Court in a Separation of Powers System

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 11
List of Tables......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction: Recalculating: Getting to the Supreme Court with a GPS......Page 16
Acquiring Satellites......Page 17
Research Design......Page 18
In .2 Miles, Prepare to Turn Right......Page 21
1 The Supreme Court: The Nation’s Balance Wheel?......Page 23
The Design of the Framers and the New Normal......Page 27
Understanding Decision Making by the Supreme Court......Page 30
Making Public Policy and Protecting Legitimacy......Page 31
A First Test of the Decision-Making Model......Page 36
A Quick Look Ahead......Page 39
Conclusion......Page 40
Appendix to Chapter 1......Page 43
2 The Supreme Court and the President: An “Informal and Limited Alliance”......Page 46
“ He Shall Nominate . . .”......Page 48
“He Shall Take Care That the Laws Be Faithfully Executed”......Page 53
“ To Supervise and Conduct Government Litigation”......Page 55
“An Informal and Limited Alliance”......Page 58
1.81 Miles, But Sometimes It Seems Much Closer......Page 60
The Umpire Strikes Back......Page 65
Conclusion......Page 68
Appendix to Chapter 2......Page 71
3 The Supreme Court and Congress: The First Shall Be Last, Will the Last Be First?......Page 74
Congress and the Supreme Court......Page 77
The Panoply of Checks......Page 79
The View from Capitol Hill......Page 86
The House and the Senate......Page 93
What? We Worry?......Page 94
Conclusion......Page 96
Appendix to Chapter 3......Page 99
4 The Supreme Court and the Bureaucracy: The Clash of Kafkaesque Forces?......Page 105
The Bureaucracy: Perception and Reality......Page 110
The Courts and the Bureaucracy: The Real Powers?......Page 112
Politics and the Bureaucracy......Page 113
The Making of the Modern Supreme Court and the Implications for the Bureaucracy......Page 115
The Evolution of Administrative Law......Page 118
Who’s the Boss? Congress or the President?......Page 120
The Third Way? Judicial Control of the Bureaucracy......Page 122
Models of Bureaucratic Behavior......Page 123
The Shifting Standards of Review......Page 125
The Role of the Solicitor General......Page 129
After the Decision: The Bureaucratic Response......Page 134
Conclusion......Page 137
Appendix to Chapter 4......Page 140
5 The Supreme Court and Public Opinion: The Two Faces of Janus......Page 144
The Public and the Temple......Page 149
Should the Court Pay Attention to the Public?......Page 151
To Not Know the Supreme Court Is to Love the Supreme Court: Specific and Diffuse Support......Page 153
The Gravitational Pull of the Ruling Majority......Page 159
Looking for Janus (the Retrospective Face)......Page 162
The Supreme Court Cares About the Elites, Not About You......Page 166
The New School of Athens and the Second Face of Janus......Page 170
Conclusion......Page 174
Appendix to Chapter 5......Page 178
6 “Lobbying” the Judicial Branch: May it Please the Court?......Page 182
Because That’s Where They Make the Policy......Page 187
Interest Groups, Pluralism, and Political Litigation......Page 188
Parting the Curtains and Opening the Door: The Dance of Litigation......Page 193
Why Do You Think They Call Them “The Haves”?......Page 201
The Special Case of the Solicitor General: The Ultimate Repeat Player......Page 204
Jenga!!!......Page 210
Conclusion......Page 214
Appendix to Chapter 6......Page 219
7 The Supreme Court and the Lower Courts: A Bureaucracy to Call Your Own......Page 225
The Circle of Law......Page 229
If the Courts of Appeals Make a Decision and No One Is Listening, It Still Makes a Sound......Page 231
Of Principles and Principals: There Is No “I” in Team, But There Is “Me”......Page 232
“What Am I? A Potted Plant”......Page 237
It’s 3:00 A.M. and No One Is Around......Page 241
Up the Down Staircase......Page 242
Issue Framing and Setting the Agenda......Page 246
Lower Courts: The Interpreting Population......Page 250
The Conditions for Faithful Interpretation and Implementation......Page 252
Holding the Line......Page 256
Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way......Page 257
Conclusion......Page 259
Appendix to Chapter 7......Page 262
8 Conclusion......Page 267
Managing the Court’s Environment......Page 270
I Knew I Forgot Something: Where’s the Law?......Page 272
The Delicate Balance......Page 274
A Quick Trip Through the Modern Court......Page 277
Opening Farewell......Page 279
Cases Cited......Page 280
Bibliography......Page 282
Subject Index......Page 314
Name Index......Page 320