When President Joe Biden gives his State of the Union address on March 1, he’ll be facing an American public that is largely dissatisfied with his presidency so far, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll. A majority of Americans — 56 percent — say Biden’s time in office to […] Read more »
Poll finds sharp partisan divisions on the impact of a Black woman justice
Leading into President Joe Biden’s first Supreme Court nomination, Americans are split along partisan lines on a range of attitudes relating to the high court — approval of its job performance, confidence in Biden’s selection and how having a Black woman as justice would affect the country. There is one […] Read more »
Biden’s Promise to Nominate a Black Woman to the Supreme Court
During the 2020 presidential campaign, President Biden promised to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Justice Stephen Breyer announced his intention to retire last month, providing Biden with the opportunity to make good on his pledge. Overall, nearly half of the public do not consider the first Black […] Read more »
Stark racial gap in views on Black woman on high court
Americans are starkly divided by race on the importance of President Joe Biden’s promise to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court, with white Americans far less likely to be highly enthusiastic about the idea than Black Americans — and especially Black women. That’s according to a new poll […] Read more »
The Supreme Court’s ‘Dead Hand’
The Supreme Court has set itself on a collision course with the forces of change in an inexorably diversifying America. The six Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices have been nominated and confirmed by GOP presidents and senators representing the voters least exposed, and often most hostile, to the demographic and cultural […] Read more »
Biden’s real Supreme Court choice: Bridge-builder or truth-teller?
Whoever President Joe Biden nominates to the Supreme Court is likely to spend at least the first decade, and possibly much more, of her tenure on the losing side of many key rulings decided by the court’s conservative, Republican-appointed majority. That stark prospect, though rarely discussed, looms as perhaps the […] Read more »