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Presidential Administration In The Obama Era, Jud Mathews
Presidential Administration In The Obama Era, Jud Mathews
Jud Mathews
This essay, prepared for a conference on the Obama presidency and the Supreme Court held in Berlin in October 2016, surveys what presidential administration has looked like in the Obama era, and how the President’s leadership of the executive branch has been received in the Supreme Court. There is little that is really new in how President Obama has used the executive branch to pursue policy priorities; rather, his administration has deployed and developed techniques pioneered by previous presidents. Many of the techniques of presidential administration evade judicial review, although the Supreme Court has pushed back directly against President Obama’s …