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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaaci0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IN THI ISUE No ine an th Cor (pp 1-7) Supreme Court Nominations: Initial Reactions and More In the first two pages of this edition of Political Report, we display the public's initial reaction to Court nominees as measured by several different pollsters. Initial readings are usually more positive than negative although many people answer don't know or not sure. In recent questions on Brett Kavanaugh, the split between positive and negative opinion seems to be slightly closer than it was in the past, perhaps because of greater partisan polarization. Gallup notes that with the exception of Robert Bork and Harriet Miers there has been little change in Americans' fundamental support for the confirmation of past high court nominees between the initial reading and later measurements. Q: As you may know, is a federal judge who has been nominated to serve on the Supreme Court. Would you like to see the Senate vote in favor of or not? Initial support for/opposition to confirmation Would like to see Senate Not vote No vote in favor of nominee in favor opinion Robert Bork (Aug. 24-Sep. 2, 1987)* 1 31% 25% 44% Clarence Thomas (Jul. 11-14, 1991) 52 17 31 Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Jun. 18-21, 7993)A 53 14 33 John Roberts (Jul. 22-24, 2005) 59 22 19 Harriet Miers (Oct. 13-16, 2005)# 44 36 20 Samuel Alito (Nov. 7-10, 2005) 50 25 25 Sonia Sotomayor (May 29-31, 2009) 54 28 19 Elena Kagan (May 24-25, 2010) 46 32 22 Merrick Garland (Mar. 18-19, 2016) 52 29 19 Neil Gorsuch (Feb. 1-2, 2017) 45 32 23 Brett Kavanaugh (Jul. 10-15, 2018) 41 37 22 Note: The data shown are from the first Gallup survey conducted after each person was nominated. *Robert Bork was nominated on July 1, 1987. There was a longer time period between his nomination date and Gallup's first survey about support for his confirmation than there was during subsequent nominations. Question wording was Robert Bork is a federal judge who has been nominated by President Reagan to serve on the US Supreme Court... AQuestion wording was Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a federal judge who has been nominated by President Clinton to serve on the United States Supreme Court... #Question wording was As you may know, Harriet Miers is the person nominated to serve on the Supreme Court... No opinion was a volunteered response. Source: Gallup, latest that ofJuly 2018. (Continued on the next page) A MERICA N EN E PR S I S IT 178 Mascuet Avne NW W shigon DC 20036 202.6.500 - w~.org

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