Thursday, May 22, 2008 - Posts
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I'm not sure why the inconsistency noted by Diane between the Findlaw and Rasmussen poll favors the Findlaw results. It could be that Rasmussen is right and Findlaw is wrong. A possible (partial) explanation for the inconsistency: Findlaw polls "American Read More...
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I have a slightly different hypothesis for Eric and the new Rasmussen poll . Eric is right to point to the odd disjunction between favorable institutional ratings and the lame reviews for individual justices. But the poll also suggests something fairly Read More...
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I agree that much of the Rasmussen poll puzzle presented by Eric is solved by the Findlaw survey results presented by Diane . I take Eric’s puzzle to be why Americans rate the Supreme Court more highly than its constituent members (especially when we Read More...
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The Rasmussen poll's (un)favorability ratings for individual Supreme Court justices surely intrigue. But how can they be squared with repeated polls indicating Americans don't even know the names of the nine folks on the court? Consider FindLaw's December Read More...
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Kenji's question about whether the Supreme Court would ever overturn the military's current "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT) policy about homosexuality raises all kinds of interesting questions—not the least of which, as Phil's response suggests, is about Read More...
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Here are some odd poll results from Rasmussen Reports. Americans think that the Supreme Court does a good job but that the Supreme Court justices do a bad job. For the court as a whole, 41 percent of voters rated the Court good or excellent; 19 percent Read More...
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Gerken Opening Post (Round 2) Yesterday Kenji Yoshino and I debated whether, as a purely predictive matter, liberty or equality offers the more promising framework for litigating gay rights claims (our posts are here and here , with short essays on the Read More...
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Kenji , I, too, think the Supreme Court will likely side with the military in any challenge to "don't ask, don't tell" that percolates up through the courts. The thumb of judicial deference to the military is heavy indeed. Despite what we've seen in the Read More...
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