It’s the question on most everyone’s tongue amid the Jan. 6 committee hearings — and especially after Cassidy Hutchinson’s explosive testimony: Will it ultimately matter? It’s a fair question. Donald Trump has skated past any number of controversies, scandals and pretty stark evidence stemming from the Russia investigations, and his […] Read more »
The decline of SCOTUS
Radical justices are doing serious, possibly irrepealable damage to the Supreme Court on which they sit. When the draft abortion opinion leaked, I wrote here that by “slapping two-thirds of the country in the face [those who oppose overturning Roe], the Court will have sacrificed its legitimacy at a time […] Read more »
How partisanship is making polling Americans more complicated
There’s something strange about how Americans see the economy these days – or, at least, how they’re describing it to pollsters. For one thing, there’s a stark partisan divide in responses to even factual economic questions. Take an April CBS News/YouGov poll that found Democrats were not only 41 percentage […] Read more »
An Early Look at (Too) Early Data on SCOTUS Abortion Ruling
The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade is a historic event, but it will take at least a few weeks, if not longer, to know whether it is an election-changing event. Arguably the worst time to measure the political impact of an event is while it is still […] Read more »
Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade “will have huge political ramifications”
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion. The ruling is expected to result in abortion bans in nearly half the states. Harvard Kennedy School Professor of Public Policy Maya Sen is a political scientist who studies the politics […] Read more »
Roe ruling shows complex relationship between court, public
The Supreme Court ruling to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is unpopular with a majority of Americans — but did that matter? The relationship between the public and the judiciary has been studied and debated by legal and political scholars. The short answer: it’s complicated. There’s evidence that […] Read more »