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"What Would a Biden Era be Like? Recent Protests Give Us Some Ideas"
The Politics of Faction Blog.
U. S. Election Results
Reuters Graphics.
"Research Presidential Materials"
National Archives.
The American Presidency Project Data Archive
The American Presidency Project.
2020 General Election Turnout Statistics
U. S. Elections Project.
2020 General Early Vote Statistics
Article II-Section 1, Clauses 2 and 3
Constitution Center.
"Could a few state legislators choose the next president?"
The Conversation. Austin Sarat. 2020.
“Inventing the Media Presidency: Public Opinion and Publicity in the Early 20th Century"
The Miller Center.
Presidential Approval Ratings Data Archive
UC Santa Barbara.
C-SPAN's Historians Survey on Presidential Leadership
Methodology of Survey (C-SPAN)
"Stamina, intelligence, ego: which personality tests make the best leaders?"
The Guardian, August 10, 2019.
"The Legislative Process: Presidential Actions"
Congress.gov
Veto procedures and Summary of Bills Vetoed by President, 1789-present
U. S. Senate.
"US Presidents and Congress have long clashed over war powers"
History.com
War Powers Resolution Report
"Just and Unjust Wars in the 21st Century"
Council on Foreign Relations, May 23, 2017.
"When do Presidents Exercise Unilateral Power?"
Georgetown Public Policy Review, November 16, 2018.
"Articles of Impeachment Against Donald J. Trump"
Congress. gov. December 18, 2019.
Bureaucracy Basics
PBS Crash Course.
Controlling Bureaucracies
PBS Crash Course.
Structure of the Court System: Crash Course Government and Politics
Selection and Confirmation of Federal Judges
Professor Scot Schraufnagel. Northern Illinois University.
"How Judges and Justices are chosen"
U. S. History.org.
Diversity in US Federal Judiciary Map
American Constitution Law Society.
"Republicans have already packed the Supreme Court. Unpack it by making it bigger."
USA Today, October 29, 2020.
"Why Republicans Take Jan. 6 Less Seriously Than Other Americans"
FiveThirtyEight. 2022.
"100 days: How Biden Has Fared So Far On His Promises"
NPR.org. 2021
"Following the rules? Candidate strategy in presidential primaries"
Ridout, Rottinhaus, and Hosey. 2009.
"Long-term trends and short-term forcasts: The transformation of the US presidential elections in an age of polarization"
Abramowitz. 2014.
"The miracle and tragedy of the 2020 election"
Persily and Stewart III. 2021.
"The Second Face of the Public Presidency: Presidential Polling and the Shift from Policy to Personality Polling "
Jacobs and Burns. 2004.
"Trump's Legacy: He changed the presidency, but will it last?"
Associated Press. 2020.
"Biden Job Approval Ratings"
Gallup.
"Motivated Reasoning, Public Opinion, and Presidential Approval"
Political Behavior.
"Can Personality and Politics Be Studied Systematically?"
Greenstein, 1992.
"The Political Personality of US President George W. Bush"
Immelman, 2002.
"Two Reagans? Genre Imperatives, Ghostwriters, and Presidential Personality Profiling"
Sigelman, 2002.
"The View from the Oval Office: Understanding the Legislative Presidency"
Weinberg, 2018.
"Political Theater or Bargaining Failure: Why Presidents Veto"
Gilmour, 2011.
"The Legislative Presidency in political Time: Party-Control and Presidential-Congressional Relations"
Conley, 2003.
"The Clinton Administration and War Powers"
Damrosch, 2001.
"Constitutional War Initiation and the Obama Presidency"
Ramsey, 2016.
" The Public Cost of Unilateral Action"
Reeves and Rogowski, 2018.
"The Law: "If Men Were Angels": The Legal Dynamics of Overseeing the Executive Branch"
Selin and Milazzo, 2021.
"Obtaining Witnesses in an Impeachment Trial: Compulsion, Executive Privilege, and the Courts"
Congressional Research Service, 2020.
"The Appointments Process and the Administrative Presidency"
Aberbach and Rockman, 2009.
"Organizational Complexity and Coordination Dilemmas in U>S> Executive Politics"
Krause, 2009.
"Revisiting the Administrative Presidency: Policy, Patronage, and Agency Competence"
Lewis, 2009.
"Biden promised competence and order. Chaos and uncertainty are winning"
Politico.com, 2021.
"Biden has appointed second-most federal judges through Jan. 1 of a president's second year in office"
Ballotpedia, 2022.
"Judical Appointments Checks and Balances in Practice"
Brand, 2010.
"Patrick Henry Speech in the Virginia Convention, 5 June 1788"
"George Mason Speech in the Virginia Convention, 17 June 1788"
Presidential Power Surges
Harvard Law Review, 2019.
The Federalist Papers, #69
Library of Congress.
"George Mason's Objections to the Constitution of Government formed by the Convention, Fall 1787"
"Fabius IX Pennsylvania Mercury, 1 May 1788"
Further Readings
"It's time to abolish the Electoral College"
Brookings.edu
FDR Requests Congress to Declare War, December 8, 1941
The Miller Center.
"A Huge Attack: Critics Decry Trump Order That Makes Firing Federal Workers Easier"
NPR.org. October 31, 2020.
"Everything you need to know about Trump's approval rating"
The Gallup Podcast, May 1, 2018.
Senate Impeachment Trial, Day 7, Defense Opening Arguments fron RAY, Dershowitz and Cipollone
C-SPAN.
"What Will a Biden Presidency Look Like?"
The Politics In Question Podcast.
"Trump faces tough road in getting Supreme Court to intervene."
Associated Press.
"There are 3 possible scenarios for what post-Trump America could look like, according to experts"
Business Insider.
"Can America Recover from the Trump Presidency?"
Vanity Fair Podcast.
"How Trump Compares with other recent presidents in appointing federal judges"
Pew Research, July15, 2020.
"Frontline: How McConnell's bid to reshape the federal judiciary extends beyond the Supreme Court"
pbs.org. October 16, 2020.
"What is Court Packing?"
Rutgers Law.
"Washington Examiner/YouGov Poll: By 47% to 34% voters oppose court packing"
YouGov. October 7, 2020.
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