Interaction Among the Branches John Marshall left the Court a genuinely coequal branch of a tripartite national government . . . the final arbiter of the meaning of the United States Constitution. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, The Supreme Court, 2001 Congress: House & Senate President Bureaucracy Judicial System Senator John McCain President Jimmy Carter Justice Antonin Scalia Impeachment 1974 Presidential Pardons The Nuclear Football Truman Library Best President? Congressional Term Limits Criminal & Civil Courts Congressional Committees Filibuster Court & Custom Dept of Vets Affairs Compliance Monitoring The Intense Interaction among the Branches with Advice & Consent