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  • 9 - Conclusions

  • Paul M. Collins, Jr, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, University of North Texas
  • Book:
    The President and the Supreme Court
    Published online:
    13 December 2019
    Print publication:
    09 January 2020, pp 204-222

  • Summary

    We conclude the book in Chapter 9. We begin by presenting data on the first 21.5 months of the Trump Administration and situate that information in light of our findings with regard to previous presidents as a way of bringing our empirical conclusions to life. We find that President Trump’s remarks on the Court’s cases are similar to previous presidents in many ways, but his rhetoric toward courts as institutions and lower-court judges is more vitriolic than his predecessors. We then review our key findings with regard to normative theoretical debates about judicial independence and the coordinate construction of the Constitution, and discuss their contributions to the study of the rhetorical presidency. We ultimately conclude that taking positions on Supreme Court decisions is a perfectly appropriate presidential governance strategy. We close by offering suggestions for future research on the important subject of executive-judicial relations in the US and across the globe.