President Trump’s aggressive drive to add a conservative justice to the Supreme Court before Election Day has not helped him in Pennsylvania, a state crucial to his re-election, where more voters prefer Joseph R. Biden Jr. to fill the vacant seat, according to a poll by New York Times and […] Read more »
How conservative Catholics became supreme on GOP’s court
President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett continues the GOP’s remarkable streak of selecting Catholic jurists for the Supreme Court and underscores the enduring impact of the alliance between conservative Catholics and evangelical Protestants, which has transformed the Republican coalition. If the Senate confirms Barrett to replace the late […] Read more »
Tight races in Georgia and North Carolina, while Supreme Court is another factor
Voters say the Supreme Court vacancy has added to the already high stakes of the presidential election. In the battlegrounds of Georgia and North Carolina, most say it makes the election feel even more important — it’s one more factor in an election in which most voters from both parties […] Read more »
Voters Believe Winner of Election Should Fill Court Vacancy
A clear majority of voters believe the winner of the presidential election should fill the Supreme Court seat left open by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, according to a national poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College, a sign of the political peril President Trump […] Read more »
Legacy & Implications
On this week’s episode of Poll Hub, the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg left a hole in the tapestry of American jurisprudence and set in motion a political battle with lasting implications. Then, Patrick Murray, Director of the Polling Institute at Monmouth University, joins the discussion. We’re […] Read more »
Scenes from a Supreme Court Focus Group
How will the coming Supreme Court vote impact the presidential race? On Thursday, I convened a focus group of 2016 Trump voters—all college-educated women in swing states—to ask them what they thought. What I heard was bad news for Republicans. Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell seem to hope that nominating […] Read more »