Examines the relationship between the president and the Supreme Court, including how presidents view the norm of judicial independence.

The Supreme Court and the Presidency: Struggles for Supremacy This newest edition to The Supreme Court’s Power in American Politics series explores and analyz

Explains how United States presidents select justices for the Supreme Court, evaluates the performance of each justice, and examines the influence of politics o

The process by which presidents decide whom to nominate to fill Supreme Court vacancies is obviously of far-ranging importance, particularly because the vast ma

In the fourth of the Federalist Papers, published in 1787, John Jay warned of absolute monarchs who "will often make war when their nations are to get nothing b