The White House’s response to last week’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which in 1973 established a constitutional right to abortion, once again has exposed the tension between the conciliatory instincts President Joe Biden developed during his long career in Washington, D.C., and the ferocity of the modern […] Read more »
The decline of SCOTUS
Radical justices are doing serious, possibly irrepealable damage to the Supreme Court on which they sit. When the draft abortion opinion leaked, I wrote here that by “slapping two-thirds of the country in the face [those who oppose overturning Roe], the Court will have sacrificed its legitimacy at a time […] Read more »
Majority Disapprove of Reversing Roe
Six in ten Americans disapprove – nearly all of them strongly – of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Monmouth University Poll finds two-thirds of the public feels a pregnant woman should be afforded more rights than an unborn fetus during the first trimester, although […] Read more »
Confidence in Supreme Court collapses as just 33% agree with decision to overturn Roe v. Wade
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that more than six in 10 Americans (61%) now have little or no confidence in the Supreme Court after its decision Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade — a near-total reversal from the 70% of voters who expressed at least some confidence in the […] Read more »
An Early Look at (Too) Early Data on SCOTUS Abortion Ruling
The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade is a historic event, but it will take at least a few weeks, if not longer, to know whether it is an election-changing event. Arguably the worst time to measure the political impact of an event is while it is still […] Read more »
Politics in the Post-Roe World
Key Points• The president’s party often struggles in midterms, although extraordinary circumstances can save them from losses. The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe vs. Wade could be 2022’s extraordinary circumstance.• Beyond abortion, Republicans still retain powerful political advantages.• Democrats could get their version of 2018’s “Kavanaugh Effect.”• 2022 won’t definitively […] Read more »