Opinion Today

July 25, 2022

Americans have lost confidence in the Supreme Court
AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
Most Americans favor constitutional reforms to the Supreme Court to impose term and age limits for justices.

AP-NORC poll: 2 in 3 in US favor term limits for justices
Jessica Gresko & Emily Swanson, Associated Press
About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, according to a new poll that finds a sharp increase in the percentage of Americans saying they have “hardly any” confidence in the court.

Iowa Poll: Most Iowans support legal abortion; court rulings have paved way for more restrictions
Katie Akin, Des Moines Register [via Yahoo News]
A majority of Iowans — 60% — say abortion should be legal in most or all cases, at a time when the state's Republican lawmakers have new freedom to restrict the procedure. That finding is from a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll, which also shows that just over a third of Iowans, 34%,…