Abstract
ABSTRACTThis study offers a new approach to understanding the president's agenda and impact. Because the court lacks the ability to implement its decisions, it depends on political actors and the public to maintain legitimacy. We argue that the president's decision to go public on an issue, depending on the intensity in which it is done, induces the Court to defer to the executive. We examine the Supreme Court's responsiveness to presidential preferences on civil liberties and rights cases. If a policy area is especially important to the president, we assume it is in this area that he will work hardest to protect his interests. We find that the greater the proportion of the State of the Union that the president devotes to the topic area of civil liberties and rights, the more likely the Court is to rule in the president's ideological direction.
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