The decline of Supreme Court deference to the President /

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Author / Creator:	Epstein, Lee, 1958- author.
Imprint:	[Chicago, Illinois] : Law School, University of Chicago, 2017.
Description:	1 online resource (30 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics working paper ; no. 800 Public law and legal theory working paper ; no. 618 Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics working paper ; no. 800. Public law and legal theory working paper ; no. 618.
Subject:	United States. -- Supreme Court. United States. -- Supreme Court. Judicial power -- United States. Executive power -- United States. Executive power. Judicial power. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11296286

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Other authors / contributors:	Posner, Eric A., 1965- author.
Notes:	"March 2017." Includes bibliographical references. Title from online title page (viewed August 4, 2017).
Summary:	"According to entrenched conventional wisdom, the president enjoys considerable advantages over other litigants in the Supreme Court. Because of the central role of the presidency in the U.S. government, and the expertise and experience of the Solicitor General's office, the president usually wins. However, a new analysis of the data reveals that the conventional wisdom is out of date. The historical dominance of the president in the Supreme Court reached its apex in the Reagan administration, which won nearly 80% of the cases, and has declined steadily since then. In the Obama administration, the presidency suffered its worst win rate, barely 50%. After documenting this trend, we discuss possible explanations. We find evidence that the trend may be due to growing self-assertion of the Court and the development of a specialized private Supreme Court bar. We find no evidence for two other possible explanations -- that the trend is due to greater executive overreaching than in the past, or ideological disagreements between the Court and the presidency."

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