Is the U.S. Supreme Court a Reliable Backstop for an Overreaching U.S. President? Maybe, but is an Overreaching (Partisan) Court Worse?

Presidential Studies Quarterly 53: 234-255 (2023)

Rebecca L. Brown, University of Southern California
Lee Epstein, University of Southern California (now at Washington University in St. Louis)

Figure 3 in the paper shows the president’s win rate by Chief Justice era. The chart below shows the win rate by president.