New reporting recently revealed that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted lavish trips at the invitation of — and paid for by — Harlan Crow, a Texas real estate billionaire. New polling by the Economist and YouGov finds that most Americans disapprove of Thomas’s having failed to disclose these trips, […] Read more »
Why Republicans are in trouble: Trump and the abortion issue aren’t going away
Donald Trump is now in a stronger position to win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination than he has been in months as his party rallies around him following his indictment by a New York grand jury on business fraud charges. But actual results on the ground continue to suggest that […] Read more »
American division on Trump indictment deepens
In a second poll fielded a week after news broke about former President Donald Trump’s indictment on charges related to falsifying business records in hush money payments, the divisions among Americans regarding Trump continue to deepen. This comes as independents and people who were undecided on this issue last week […] Read more »
Majority of Americans believe Trump did something illegal
With former President Donald Trump now formally charged on criminal charges, a majority of Americans (53%) believe he intentionally did something illegal, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll. An additional 11% say he acted wrongly but not intentionally. Only 20% believe Trump did not do anything wrong, and 16% […] Read more »
Trump remains favored in 2024 presidential nomination despite criminal charges
The latest Reuters/Ipsos survey conducted following Donald Trump’s arrest and arraignment in New York on Tuesday shows that Americans are divided about Trump’s prosecution and continue to feel the prosecution is politically motivated but the charges against him are believable. The poll also shows that Republicans continue to support Trump […] Read more »
Trump’s latest personal attacks on judges could further weaken people’s declining trust in American rule of law
Former President Donald Trump arrives at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on April 4, 2023, before his arraignment. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images Paul M. Collins Jr., UMass Amherst and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, University of North Texas When former President Donald Trump was arraigned in a Manhattan criminal court on April 4, […] Read more »