A majority of voters believe that Congress should pass a law to aid millions of lower-income Americans who could lose their health care coverage if the Supreme Court invalidates the subsidies they receive for living in states that didn’t establish their own insurance marketplaces. CONT. Carrie Dann, NBCNews.com Read more »
A Polarized Court, Weighing a Reversal of the Safety Net
The Supreme Court has become a more partisan institution in recent decades, more closely resembling the other branches of government than it once did. This week will start to show just how partisan the court has become. On Wednesday, it will hear arguments in the latest challenge to the health […] Read more »
Alabama, Where Same-Sex Marriage Remains Deeply Unpopular
Public opinion surveys show that a majority of adults — and a growing one — now supports same-sex marriage. But the rapid change in public opinion may obscure another fact: Large areas of the country remain overwhelmingly opposed to same-sex marriage, with little sign of change. CONT. Nate Cohn, New […] Read more »
Why Judges Tilt to the Right
Lawyers on average are much more liberal than the general population, a new study has found. But judges are more conservative than the average lawyer, to say nothing of the graduates of top law schools. What accounts for the gap? The answer, the study says, is that judicial selection processes […] Read more »
The Public’s Views Of King V. Burwell
With the Supreme Court set to hear the King v. Burwell case in March, the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that a majority of the public says they have heard nothing at all about the case. In an initial reaction to what Congress or states using the federal marketplace […] Read more »
Is the Defendant White or Not?
As jury selection continues in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the defendant in the Boston Marathon bombings, so does debate about what would constitute a fair and impartial jury. … Within hours of the F.B.I.’s release of the suspects’ photographs, we collected responses from 426 white Americans to a broad […] Read more »