In the article published by Anna Harvey and Barry Friedman, they conducted research to discover whether or not the court was constrained or unconstrained. The researched contained six theories: the floor median theory, in which the Court adhered to the median of Congress’ floor as the House and Senate medians were pivotal to their decisions; the committee gatekeeping model, in which committees control which legislation reaches the Congress floor; majority party (gatekeeping/median) models, in which majority party medians are more influential than the entirety of Congress’ medians or committees; and the veto-filibuster model, in which the possibility of a presidential veto and seniority filibusters influence decisions. Harvey and Friedman focused
