This newest edition to The Supreme Court’s Power in American Politics series explores and analyzes the dynamic alliances and tensions between the nations chief executive and the Court over time. Through primary source and other documents and insightful narratives, this work discusses appointments, prerogative governance, and the role of time and regimes in the complex scheme of checks and balances.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Separation of Powers and Judicial Respect for Coordinate Branches
• Chapter 3 Prerogative Governance and Checks and Balances
• Chapter 4 The Power of Appointment
• Chapter 5 The Development of the Modern Executive Branch and its Officers
• Chapter 6 The Weakening of Legislative Direction in the Administrative State
• Chapter 7 Codetermination of Fiscal Policy
• Chapter 8 Emergency Executive Power
• Chapter 9 Presidential Diplomacy
• Chapter 10 Presidential War Making
• Chapter 11 Controversies over Concealment and Pardons
• Chapter 12 Immunity, Censure, and Impeachment
• Appendix: Conflict and Collaboration and the Problem of Timing