Majority opposes Barrett hearings, supports upholding Roe v. Wade

New Post-ABC poll: A slim 52% majority of voters oppose Barrett hearings, though a 62% majority support high court upholding Roe v. Wade https://t.co/IprtXVBZ5i pic.twitter.com/Ji60f2vfGB
— Post Polls (@PostPolls) October 12, 2020

Polls show public opposes Trump nominating Ginsburg’s replacement now.

The margin varies but all polls I have seen have more people opposed to having Trump nominating someone now. Of course, that won’t stop Trump and McConnell. Public opinion supported having hearings on Garland. Public opinion supported having witnesses at the Senate impeachment hearing. Republicans did neither one and they won’t care about public opinion now. They only care about power.

A slim majority of voters nationwide oppose efforts by the White House and Senate Republicans to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court by election day, a new poll shows https://t.co/rxKbvO700O
— POLITICO (@politico) September 28, 2020

Takeaways from NBC News/Marist polls of MI & WI

1. Majorities of likely voters say 2020 winner should get to fill SCOTUS vacancy

Winner should fill vacancy
MI 54%, WI 56%

Trump should fill vacancy immediately
MI 35%, WI 37%

Trump should fill after election
MI 7%, WI 5%
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) September 27, 2020

BREAKING: Americans by a nearly 20-point margin say the next Supreme Court justice should be left to the winner of the presidential election and a Senate vote next year, new @ABC News/WaPo poll finds. https://t.co/l3mWEJ0xHw
— ABC News (@ABC) September 25, 2020

CNN poll – Who should appoint RBG's replacement?

59% the winner in November
41% Trump

Women think the winner should pick by 30 points, 65-35, and independents by 18 points, 59-41.

The only groups that think Trump should choose: Republicans and whites without a college degree.
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) September 23, 2020

New CNN poll on who Americans want to make the choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. @jaketapper reports pic.twitter.com/Cvu605TjZl
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 23, 2020

Most Americans oppose filling Ginsburg's seat before the election. But Republicans, in a giant reversal from 2016, support it. And so here we are. https://t.co/InWiOPV8zg
— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 23, 2020

The Economist/YouGov, however, find that 41% of adults think Trump should nominate someone while 46% think he should leave the seat vacant until inauguration day. https://t.co/G1bxhtUomE
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) September 23, 2020

🚨 New 🚨 Supreme Court polling:

53% – 39% Don't fill before election
51% – 39% Don't fill in lame duck if Biden wins
40% – 39% Expand Court if Trump fills

Democrats more likely to say Supreme Court increases their motivation. https://t.co/IgEgoLZD4U
— Data for Progress (@DataProgress) September 21, 2020

Pretty consistent stuff here. Most voters in the polls taken after Friday have said wait on the Supreme Court pick… https://t.co/bdr8E7bRiv
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) September 21, 2020

More voters think the winner of November's election should appoint a new justice to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with a double-digit advantage over those who say President Trump should nominate someone before the electionhttps://t.co/JC1iGEFZHi
— POLITICO (@politico) September 21, 2020

If voters prefer waiting until after the election by a 13-point margin *and* D's are more fired up about the Supreme Court, this starts to look like a challenging issue for Republicans. Which is not to say they won't confirm someone, just that it could come at an electoral price. https://t.co/wsbllBsEgn
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) September 21, 2020

Trump aides feared his cult would cheer the passing of Ginsburg

Even his staff understands they have created a monster. This country will never be unified.

When news broke that Ginsburg had died, Trump was just five minutes into a campaign rally. Aides opted not to pass word to him onstage. If he announced the death of the liberal justice from the lectern, they feared the crowd would cheer. ⁦@maggieNYT⁩ https://t.co/pgUdOFBIel
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 23, 2020

Trump’s aides decided not to alert him of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death while he was onstage at a Minnesota rally because they feared that his crowd would cheer about her passinghttps://t.co/MhGH4zkBnf
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) September 23, 2020

Supreme Court upholds DACA

Republicans will complain but their position is not shared by the majority.

NEWS: Supreme Court blocks the Trump administration's recession of DACA. Chief Justice Roberts writes the opinion, joined in full or part by the four liberal justices.

DACA survives.https://t.co/qzI1YGgzNA
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 18, 2020

Eight years ago this week, we protected young people who were raised as part of our American family from deportation. Today, I'm happy for them, their families, and all of us. We may look different and come from everywhere, but what makes us American are our shared ideals…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 18, 2020

I get the impression that you do a lot of things that the Supreme Court regards as illegal. https://t.co/dqeTVAjIQG
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 18, 2020

Images like this do more for America’s standing in the world than anything we could do through our foreign policy. https://t.co/Y2jGfyV6wm
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) June 18, 2020

Nearly 75% of Americans Support Legal Status For DACA Beneficiaries, Poll Finds#DACA https://t.co/85l1IKVOqY
— Antonio Arellano (@AntonioArellano) June 18, 2020

But 70% of Americans support DACA. It will energize the base, but Trump cannot win with with 30%, no matter how energized they may be. https://t.co/c7qntoZwSn
— No Malarkey Spoon (@Political_spoon) June 18, 2020

Sorry you didn't get to screw over millions of American dreamers for your racist base.https://t.co/Eex2C0yzA6
— 'Stache Exotic (@Stache2020) June 18, 2020

2/ 69% of Trump voters don't want to see Dreamers deported. Protecting Dreamers is one of the most popular, bipartisan issues in America. Rescinding DACA was always for the purpose of using Dreamers as bait to get the Wall and deport others. That blew up. https://t.co/IYwvN5h433
— Alan Cross (@AlanLCross) June 18, 2020

Reminder: Democrats offered Trump *$25 billion* for wall/border in return for a path to citizenship for the DACA-eligibles. WH rejected.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 18, 2020

Trump could have had a deal

DACA is safe. For now. And Sotomayor makes clear that POTUS’ intent was bigoted in her concuring decision:

“Taken together, ‘the words of the President’ help to ‘create the strong perception’ that the recission decision was ‘contaminated by impermissible discriminatory animus.’” pic.twitter.com/sC7YJlRUlW
— Phillip Atiba Goff (@DrPhilGoff) June 18, 2020

He mad. https://t.co/k6Ib0UQ0hc
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 18, 2020

Playbook PM: TRUMP has spent 3yrs delighting in flouting governing conventions and cutting corners.

BUT TODAY, the SUPREME COURT slapped him across the face with the rulebook, upholding DACA because the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION did not follow the correct procedures in repealing it.
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 18, 2020

This is a sobering reminder that how we vote matters. #Election2020 is about what kind if country we choose to be. I choose caring and cohesive. #VoteOutHate https://t.co/KaEiZNz4dF
— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) June 18, 2020

Opinion: In big DACA ruling, Trump’s bad faith blew up in his face https://t.co/WqYLiqm1bb
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 19, 2020

Supreme Court will decide soon on the 2020 Census and partisan gerrymandering

The Supreme Court will make decisions on two cases with major ramifications for the future.

They will rule on two cases of partisan gerrymandering and whether the Trump administration can add the citizenship question to the 2020 census. I expect the majority to make partisan rulings that toss fairness aside and help the Republicans that appointed them. If this happens, it will damage the already shaky credibility of the Court. It will become just another political component like Congress and the presidency. Sad!

Supreme Court set to decide major census, electoral maps cases https://t.co/lgKGa8rAM8 pic.twitter.com/8L46PWepCQ
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 23, 2019

Opinion: Yes, the public’s perception of the Supreme Court matters https://t.co/T629nLJhd7
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 19, 2019

"If Roberts were to uphold the citizenship question, it would make clear that he values the preservation of white political power more than the court’s reputation as a fair and nonpartisan actor." https://t.co/W2J2W8aHAe
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) June 20, 2019

Justice Thomas is essentially laying the intellectual groundwork for a massive revisiting of settled precedents. This can prove to be very, very dangerous. https://t.co/BhrBjdClRg
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) June 17, 2019

One donor paid $17,000,000 to help Kavanaugh lie his way onto the Court. Shouldn’t we know who that was? . . . and what business he or she has before the Court? https://t.co/yUvMXzyerQ
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) June 20, 2019

"On Thursday, the conservative wing of the Supreme Court called into question the whole project of modern American governance." My take on Gundy v. United States in the @nytimes. https://t.co/PJLfHMd0bV
— Nicholas Bagley (@nicholas_bagley) June 21, 2019

The Supreme Court will help Republicans rig the 2020 Census

I expect the Republican-controlled court to rule in favor of adding the citizenship question which will help Republicans by hurting Democrats. It won’t matter that the Trump administration has lied and that it was a blatantly political move that had nothing to do with enforcing the Voting Rights Act.

The Census case hinges on whether the Supreme Court will give its blessing to an overt effort to increase white political power, a dangerous step towards White Man’s Government by another name. https://t.co/WiUyGtjUpR
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 4, 2019

Read @JamilSmith on rigging the Census https://t.co/Y5BiUNs8Xl
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 4, 2019

Most important and overlooked story from last week: Why GOP wanted citizenship question on Census? To “be advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites,” or, rather, to disenfranchise voters of color https://t.co/Bir3p9f8g3
— Kevin B. Blackistone (@ProfBlackistone) June 1, 2019

Even more proof emerges that the Trump administration is adding a citizenship question to help white Republicans. Is the Supreme Court going to care? I'm not optimistic: https://t.co/0whhwUqZCb
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) May 30, 2019

This week the hood came off. The administration’s census citizenship question is racism justified with a lie: https://t.co/Ifc91QmQQQ
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) May 31, 2019

I know there's a lot going on these days, but the GOP trying to manipulate the census to undercount non-Whites and lying to the court about it is a political scandal that will massively impact this country for decades. Everyone should be paying attention. https://t.co/kuYxk938q8
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) May 31, 2019

It’s always been clear why the Trump Administration put a citizenship question on the 2020 Census:

To decrease political representation for immigrant communities for their own partisan advantage.

Now there are receipts. https://t.co/XgdPfONWzy
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) May 30, 2019

Over two dozen Trump nominees won’t endorse the Brown vs. Board of Education decision

Today is the 65th anniversary of this landmark Supreme Court decision against school segregation. I can’t understand why you wouldn’t agree with it….unless you’re a racist.

Sherrilyn Ifill: For nearly 65 years, the legal consensus around Brown was unequivocal. But since April 2018, more than two dozen Trump nominees, including new judge Wendy Vitter and deputy attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, have declined to endorse it. https://t.co/75hVzmBpaU
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) May 17, 2019

Today is the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Bd of Educ. Yet while we celebrate this anniversary and its beneficial impact on millions of Americans, Trump has nominated and McConnell’s Senate has confirmed numerous judicial nominees who REFUSE to say Brown was correctly decided. Sad
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 17, 2019

Sez @Eugene_Scott : Brown embodies the legal foundation on which all other desegregation decisions were based and the principle on which our federal civil rights laws were premised.https://t.co/9d1xR0Rvvh
— Vanessa Williams (@WaPoVanessa) May 17, 2019

Brown v. Board of Education is more than a historic ruling. It paved the way for #CivilRights progress & laid the foundation for equal protection under the law. Refusing to affirm #BrownvBoard is to lack fidelity to the rule of law. More via @USATODAY: https://t.co/c4cb3GM15X
— Derrick Johnson (@DerrickNAACP) May 17, 2019

1/2 I’m with ⁦@Sifill_LDF⁩. Brown v. Board gave black children the right to attend school with white children & ended separate but equal. If you won’t commit to Brown in your confirmation hearing, you shouldn’t be a federal judge or the Deputy AG. https://t.co/sv1SSl1nKJ
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) May 13, 2019

Court throws out Republican Ohio gerrymandering

This will wind up in the Supreme Court with the other gerrymandering cases. The gerrymandering was extreme.

BREAKING – WE JUST WON OUR CASE CHALLENGING OHIO'S GERRYMANDERED MAP – (longer analysis to follow!) @ACLU pic.twitter.com/P2B8BIR0Cl
— ACLU of Ohio (@acluohio) May 3, 2019

Gerrymandered maps in Ohio have rigged elections for too long. We’re glad to see these unfair maps ruled unconstitutional. https://t.co/1tzX1HP0o5
— Let America Vote (@letamericavote) May 3, 2019

This decision follows the trial in which the map was rightly dubbed a ‘geographic monstrosity.’

Voters must choose their elected officials. Not the other way around.https://t.co/ZwveYF7HTU
— ACLU (@ACLU) May 3, 2019

Big news:

A 3-judge US District Court panel has ruled Ohio's congressional map is unconstitutional because of gerrymandering & needs to be redrawn.

"The Ohio map sacrifices respect for traditional districting principles in order to maximize pro-Republican partisan advantage." pic.twitter.com/wQu4PzOtXj
— Taylor Popielarz (@TaylorPopielarz) May 3, 2019

Lindsay Graham just keeps getting worse

Republicans are pushing their fake idea that the investigation was illegitimate.

I can’t believe this needs to be said out loud, but the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee calling the Chief Justice personally and asking him to “look into” how a lower federal court handled a series of cases is so wildly inappropriate as to almost defy description. https://t.co/TBaBpzgUmO
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) May 2, 2019

Trump thinks the Supreme Court is his ally

He makes everything political.

Trump views the Supreme Court as an ally, sowing doubt about its independence among his critics https://t.co/TuLQwWtnw9
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 27, 2019