… Nearly half of Americans approve of Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court compared to 19% who disapprove and about a third who don’t have an opinion. Eighty percent of Democrats approve Brown Jackson’s confirmation and 43% of Republicans disapprove. Overall, Democrats are satisfied with how President Biden and […] Read more »
AP-NORC poll: Many support Jackson court confirmation
More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided. And a majority of Black Americans — but fewer white and Hispanic Americans — approve of her confirmation. Overall, 48% […] Read more »
Majority of Americans recognize significance of Ketanji Brown Jackson SCOTUS appointment
In the wake of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s 53-47 confirmation vote to be appointed to the Supreme Court, a new USA Today/Ipsos poll finds that a plurality of Americans – and two-thirds of those who report following the hearing – support Jackson’s confirmation. More, however, recognize the significance of now […] Read more »
How Jackson will sharpen the Supreme Court’s core conflict
… Just 51 years old, Jackson will likely spend decades at the center of the gathering conflict between the deeply conservative inclinations of the GOP-appointed justices and the preferences of a diversifying America, particularly the massive millennial and Generation Z cohorts born since 1980, which constitute the most racially and […] Read more »
In economic views, inflation outweighs jobs
This week’s positive jobs report and the stronger employment rate aren’t entirely lost on Americans — just outweighed when they rate the economy. Many do say the job market is good and that jobs have increased over the last year – but it’s still inflation driving views, and even those […] Read more »
January 6th, Roe v. Wade as the Known Unknowns for 2022
When asked in early 2002 to provide evidence that Saddam Hussein tried to supply weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld replied, “There are known knowns — there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns — that is to say, […] Read more »