• The overwhelming majority of voters are alarmed about the coronavirus crisis and for all twelve items we tested, at least 78 percent of voters report being either very, somewhat, or a little concerned.• Voters are most concerned about the lack of adequate coronavirus testing with 50 percent reporting that […] Read more »
Rulings on Wisconsin Election Raise Questions About Judicial Partisanship
In a pair of extraordinary rulings on Monday, the highest courts in Wisconsin and the nation split along ideological lines to reject Democratic efforts to defer voting in Tuesday’s elections in the state given the coronavirus pandemic. Election law experts said the stark divisions in the rulings did not bode […] Read more »
Views on the White House, Congress, and the Country’s Leaders
Few Americans have a high degree of trust in most of the country’s institutions and leadership. Overall, 43% approve of how Trump is handling his job as president and 56% disapprove. Twenty percent approve of how Congress is handling its job, and 79% disapprove. CONT. Associated Press-NORC Center for Public […] Read more »
Will John Roberts Constrain Trump?
The final weeks of November may be remembered as the moment when Donald Trump crushed the last vestiges of resistance to him in the Republican Party. The sole remaining question is whether that conquest extends to the Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court—especially the chief justice, John Roberts. A stark […] Read more »
How a Divided Left Is Losing the Battle on Abortion
… The Democratic Party has rejected the message that drove its politics since President Bill Clinton’s administration — that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare” — and embraced abortion rights with few stipulations. Every leading Democratic presidential candidate has fallen in line. But unlike support for same-sex marriage, which […] Read more »
Nationwide Marquette Law School Poll finds confidence in U.S. Supreme Court, overall
A Marquette Law School Poll of voters nationwide provides wide-ranging measures of public understanding and opinion of the United States Supreme Court. Among the findings: A majority of respondents have more confidence in the Court than in other parts of the federal government; few see the Court as taking extremely […] Read more »