Whoever President Joe Biden nominates to the Supreme Court is likely to spend at least the first decade, and possibly much more, of her tenure on the losing side of many key rulings decided by the court’s conservative, Republican-appointed majority. That stark prospect, though rarely discussed, looms as perhaps the […] Read more »
What America Would Look Like in 2025 Under Trump
What will happen if the political tables are turned and the Republican Party wins the White House in 2024 and the House and Senate along the way? One clue is that Donald Trump is an Orban worshiper — that’s Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, a case study in […] Read more »
Public’s Views of Supreme Court Turned More Negative Before News of Breyer’s Retirement
The U.S. Supreme Court, which typically attracts only modest attention from the American public, is about to occupy the national spotlight with the possibility of a history-making change among the court’s justices and a series of highly anticipated rulings on matters ranging from abortion to gun policy. The court enters […] Read more »
Biden’s legislative problem is threadbare margins, not left-wing overreach
… It’s hard to act alone on major national problems with threadbare congressional majorities. Like all presidents, Biden won his office for multiple reasons. Many of his 81 million voters surely wanted him just to replace Donald Trump’s divisiveness with calm and tame the pandemic. But many others cheered his […] Read more »
Justice Breyer data from U.S. Supreme Court surveys, 2019-22
Even to the day it was reported that Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court, he consistently ranked as the justice whom the fewest Americans know. In results released on Wednesday, Jan. 26, before word of Breyer’s plans circulated, the Marquette Law School Poll’s Supreme Court Survey […] Read more »
‘Hell Hath No Fury Like a Voter Scorned’: What 14 Swing Voters Have to Say
A year into the Biden administration, most of us can agree on one thing: The United States remains a deeply divided nation, with polarizing opinions on all sides. But what about the voices from the middle, the independents? Swing voters are arguably one of the most consequential groups for the […] Read more »