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 »
The Tea Party’s Last Stand
… Months ago, President Trump tweeted, “liberate” Minnesota, Michigan, and Virginia and “save your great 2nd Amendment.” The national conservative funding network and Fox News jumped in to promote the protests, but the hundreds who joined the capitol protests fell far short of the Tea Party protests against President Barack […] Read more »
Americans weigh in on issues before the Supreme Court
The latest CBS News poll asked Americans about their views on some issues related to cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, which announces its opinions in most cases before adjourning for the summer at the end of June or beginning of July. Here’s what we found: CONT. Jennifer De Pinto […] Read more »
Donald Trump, Joe Biden and the Vote of the Irish
In 2016, my vantage point on the donnybrook between Donald and Hillary was an Irish bar in Queens, where I was a bartender a few nights a week. … Half the patrons were Irish immigrants who considered Mr. Trump a real “eejit,” but the other half, the Irish Americans, thought […] Read more »
Why Isn’t Trump Riding High?
One surprise with Covid-19 is not what happened but what didn’t happen. Although the pandemic might yet benefit President Trump — through heightened xenophobia, increased acceptance of authoritarian leadership, racial and ethnic schism — the political winds have not, to date, shifted in Trump’s direction. In fact, the opposite is […] Read more »
Americans support state restrictions on businesses and halt to immigration during virus outbreak
Americans overwhelmingly support state-imposed restrictions on businesses and the size of public gatherings to slow the spread of the coronavirus. They also back a temporary halt to immigration into the country, as ordered by President Trump, to deal with the crisis, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll. CONT. […] Read more »