Thursday, April 24, 2025
KFF Poll On Measles And Misinformation
The charts above are from the Kaiser Family Foundation Poll -- done between April 8th and 15th of a nationwide sample of 1,380 adults, with a 3 point margin of error.
Harvard Youth Poll Shows Many Are Hurting (And Unhappy With Trump Policies)
The charts above are from the Harvard Youth Poll -- done between March 14th and 25th of a nationwide sample of 18 to 29 year-olds, with a 3.21 point margin of error.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Views On Immigration/Deportation From The Yale Youth Poll
The charts above are from the Yale Youth Poll -- done between April 1st and 3rd of a nationwide sample of 4,100 registered voters (including 2,025 under 30). The margin of error for all adults is 1.9 points, and for the youth sample is 1.8 points.
Trump Is Upset That The Constitution Guarantees Everyone Due Process Rights
Donald Trump thought he could use am 18th century law to speed up his deportation of undocumented (and documented) immigrants, and even mused about using it to deport some citizens to a foreign prison. But he ran into a huge obstacle - the United States Constitution.
The Constitution gives everyone inside the borders of this country some rights - among those rights is the right to due process. That means the government cannot take a punitive action against anyone with giving them a chance to defend themselves in a hearing or a trial. And that right has been upheld by all nine Supreme Court justices!
Our Founding Fathers had experienced living under a King, where due process could be bypassed on a whim. They wanted to make sure the government they created could not do that - in their time or in the future. To make sure no future president could deny due process (or deny other rights), they created the Bill of Rights.
That has Trump upset. He wants the power to deny due process to immigrants (and maybe even citizens who fail to declare fealty to him). He has said he would deport 1 million immigrants a year. But that would mean holding 1 million hearings a year - an impossibility with the current number of hearing officers.
Trump would like to have the powers of an absolute ruler. The Founding Fathers were determined to prevent any president from having such absolute power. That's why they divided the government into three separate branches, and then included a Bill of Rights in the Constitution.
The Founding Fathers were right - and its time for Americans to stand up for what they did.
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