The Supreme Court in a Separation of Powers System

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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