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How can federal courts check the president's power?

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Courts also have limited power to implement the decisions that they make. For example, if the president or another member of the executive branch chooses to ignore a ruling, there is very little that the federal courts can do about it. For example, the Supreme Court ruled against the removal of the Cherokee from their native lands in 1831. read more

Has the power to nominate candidates to fill vacancies on the Supreme Court and in lower federal courts who can affect the ideological balance of the Court and influence decisions beyond the President's term of office. read more

To prevent any part of the government from becoming too powerful, the Constitution created three separate branches of the federal government. The Constitution gives each branch its own powers. This separation of powers creates a system of checks and balances. Each branch can check (limit) the power of the other two. read more

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