FiveThirtyEight legal reporter Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux joins Galen Druke to look back at a U.S. Supreme Court term full of consequential cases. They also unpack one the final rulings of the term, which permits prosecutors to subpoena the president’s financial records. FiveThirtyEight Read more »
Democracy Maybe: Attitudes on Authoritarianism in America
The overwhelming majority of Americans embrace democracy. Consistently over the past three years, 87 percent of Americans say that a democratic political system is a good way of governing the country. At least 80 percent of Americans rate the importance of living in a democracy as an 8 or higher […] Read more »
The Major Supreme Court Cases This Term and What the Public Thinks
In the Supreme Court’s first full term since the arrival of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh shifted it to the right, the justices confronted an unusually potent mix of political and social issues in the middle of both a presidential election year and a public health crisis. Among the decisions that […] Read more »
Michigan Poll: It’s all about the economy
As part of our PollerCoaster series, Crooked Media partnered with Change Research to survey the battleground state of Michigan. We polled 3,070 likely voters, including an oversample of the most persuadable voters. The poll was conducted May 11-17. There is a lot of good news for Joe Biden in this […] Read more »
CNN Poll: No change in views on impeachment after public hearings
After five days of public hearings in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump, public opinion over whether the President ought to be impeached and removed from office remains exactly the same as it was in October, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. Half of Americans say […] Read more »
Sondland Ties Trump And Top Administration Officials To Quid Pro Quo
On the fourth day of public impeachment hearings, U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland took questions from the ranking members of the intelligence committee and their lawyers. Sondland testified that there was a quid pro quo arrangement Trump was pushing for. CONT. FiveThirtyEight Read more »