POTUS
The inherent power of the presidency that has the weight of law but can be challenged in federal courts, or by the next president.
What is an executive order?
There are a total of 15 of these.
What are cabinet departments?
This leadership positions keep a close tab on how members of Congress are leaning on a certain vote.
What is the whip?
If four Supreme Court justices agree to hear a case, they will grant this formal request filed by a petitioner.
What is a writ of certiorari?
The Supreme Court case that established the power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
A term is used to describe the president’s ability to harness media attention to push for his proposals.
What is the bully pulpit?
These bureaucratic organizations have both quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial powers.
What are independent regulatory commissions?
This type of motion, requiring 60 signatures, can bring a filibuster to an end.
What is a cloture?
This opinion is written if a justice agrees with a majority but for a different reason than the written majority opinion
What is a concurrent opinion?
This founding document calls for a single executive as the best option as it allows for quick and decisive actions and provides accountability.
What is Federalist No. 70?
This amendment provides a process for the President to temporarily give executive powers to the VP, can also be forced to do so by the Cabinet.
What is the Twenty-Fifth Amendment?
What is an Iron Triangle?
Wall Street lobbyists and the financial sector would want to make sure they have connections to this very powerful and senior House committee.
What is the House Ways and Means?
An interest group will file this if they have an information or an interest regarding the outcome of a case.
What is an Amicus Curiae brief?
This Supreme Court case established the rule that race cannot be a sole factor in the consideration of redistricting.
What is Shaw v. Reno (1993)?
A legislative check on congress by the president that can only be performed when less than 10 days are left in a congressional session.
What is a pocket veto?
This act still places limitations on federal employees from becoming directly involved in working for political candidates while doing the job.
What is the Hatch Act?
This leadership position is elected from the Senate to serve as presiding officer in the absence of the Vice President.
Who is the President pro tempore?
A doctrine holding that the Supreme Court should defer to the decisions made by the elected representatives of the people in the legislative and executive branches, not taking it upon themselve to make policy.
What is judicial restraint?
Federalist No. 78 focused on the necessity of this characteristic for federal judges in order to remain removed from the sway of political opinions.
What is lifetime appointment?
This presidential mini-bureaucracy includes several advisory and policy-making agencies that have beomce the prime policy makers for the president.
What is the Executive Office of the President?
Formation and actions of interest groups are consistantly upheld by this amendment of the Constitution.
What is the First Amendment?
These informal groups of Congress members and Senators allow for cordial debate and discussion away from the spotlight of the committees.
What are caucuses?
The Supreme Court is unique in that is has both original and appellate this.
What is jurisdiction?
This Supreme Court case established the precedent that redistricting cases concerning the Fourteenth Amendment fall under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and can be heard and ruled upon.
What is Baker v. Carr (1962)?