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Contrasting Views of the Supreme Court: George W. Bush verses John Kerry

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Court is one of three branches of our government. While Congress passes laws, the executive division enforces those laws and the judicial division interprets them and reviews their Constitutional  legality (Tannahill and Bedichek, 1991). The power of the Supreme Court is phenomenal from a presidential perspective. The presidential perspective of this power, of course, would vary according  to the political outlook of the particular president and the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court today is made up primarily of Democrats. The Court  is known for its liberal ideology. Our current president, in contrast, is more conservative in his political approach. As would be expected, he and the Court have disagreed  on more than one occasion. Obviously the manner in which President George W. Bush views the Supreme Court undoubtedly varies from the way that presidential candidate John Kerry views  the court. Kerry is very much a liberal, a stance with which the Court would be more likely to be in agreement with rather than opposed to.  The sentiment of the Court is important from more than one presidential perspective. Both of Bush and Kerry are intimately aware, of  course, that the judicial branch can override both the President and Congress. They are also intimately aware of the fact that our government limits the time our President can  serve and the time our Congressional representatives can serve yet does not place similar limitations on the time our Supreme Court Justices can serve. While the power of our  President is controlled by a number of governmental provisions, the extent of that power is also heavily dependent on the particular President and the environment in which he or she