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Constitutional Law

Feb. 12, 2015

Policing executive power

The budget of the United States executive branch is 500 times greater than that of the judicial branch. The executive workforce is over 50 times greater. By Andrew Coan and Nicholas Bullard


By Andrew Coan and Nicholas Bullard


The budget of the United States executive branch is 500 times greater than that of the judicial branch. The executive workforce is over 50 times greater. These enormous disparities have a profound effect on the form and substance of the U.S. Supreme Court's executive-power decisions. Specifically, in most domains of executive power, the limits of judicial capacity create strong pressure on the court to adopt hard-edged cat...

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