Americans are increasingly confident in the news media and less so in President Donald Trump’s administration after a tumultuous year in U.S. politics that tested the public’s trust in both institutions, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday. The poll of more than 14,300 people found that the […] Read more »
Americans’ Views of Supreme Court Ideology Shift
For the first time in nearly a decade, more Americans say the Supreme Court is too conservative (30%) than too liberal (23%). These views are reversed from last year, when 37% said the court was too liberal and 20% too conservative. Overall, the most popular view is that the Supreme […] Read more »
GOP Approval of Supreme Court Surges, Democrats’ Slides
In the past year, Republicans’ job approval rating of the Supreme Court has surged while Democrats’ rating has plummeted. Sixty-five percent of Republicans now approve of the Supreme Court, up from 26% last year. Meanwhile, Democrats’ approval has fallen from 67% in 2016 to 40%. CONT. Justin McCarthy, Gallup Read more »
An Accidental President Charts a Purposeful Course
It’s a popular refrain that President Trump and his administration are ineffectual and unable to achieve their goals. If you measure by legislation passed, that’s pretty much on target. … But if you widen the lens to other areas, it turns out that Trump and his administration have made, and […] Read more »
Trust in Judicial Branch Up, Executive Branch Down
Americans are more trusting now than they were a year ago in the judicial branch of the federal government, while they have less trust in the executive branch, and their trust in the legislative branch has not changed. As is typically the case, Americans place the greatest faith in the […] Read more »
Americans Are Poorly Informed About Basic Constitutional Provisions
Many Americans are poorly informed about basic constitutional provisions, according to a new national survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center. The annual Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey finds that: More than half of Americans (53 percent) incorrectly think it is accurate to say that immigrants who are here illegally […] Read more »