The impending battle over replacing Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court will undoubtedly loom over this year’s presidential contest. But it may have an even larger role in an often overlooked 2016 election contest: the fight for control of the Senate. The Senate is in play this November, and the […] Read more »
Should this Senate fill Justice Scalia’s Supreme Court seat? Beware the ‘argle-bargle.’
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was a master of language and argument. No matter one’s judgment of his judicial legacy, it’s hard not to have been awed by his choice of words and often obscure phrases. Calling out the majority’s reasoning in the recent King v. Burwell health-care decision probably […] Read more »
Obama Won’t Be Able To Replace Scalia With A Justice As Liberal As Sotomayor
The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia today set off a scramble in a deeply polarized Washington over his replacement on the court. Within hours of the announcement of Scalia’s death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said a vote should wait for the next president to be elected. He […] Read more »
AP-Times Square Alliance online poll: Mass shootings weighed on Americans in 2015
… Americans say the most important events of 2015 were a string of mass shootings, including the attacks in San Bernardino, California, and Paris, plus Islamic State group atrocities. … Americans also are much less likely than they were a year ago to believe that the current year was better […] Read more »
Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government
A year ahead of the presidential election, the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and the nation’s elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar. Currently, just 19% say they can trust the government always or most of the time, among the lowest levels in the […] Read more »
Same-Sex Marriages Up After Supreme Court Ruling
More lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender Americans living with a same-sex partner now report being married (45%) than did so prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 26 decision to make same-sex marriages legal in all 50 states (38%). CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones & Gary J. Gates, Gallup Read more »