More Americans oppose the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court than that of any other nominee in recent history, according to a poll from the Pew Research Center.
The survey, which was conducted a week after President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh, found Americans deeply divided along partisan lines.
According to the survey, 41 percent of respondents supported Kavanaugh's confirmation, and 36 percent opposed it — the highest unfavorability ranking in data going back to 2005, when President George W. Bush picked John Roberts for chief justice, Politico reported.
The opposition to Kavanaugh, however, is similar to the views of Neil Gorsuch's nomination in 2017, Pew noted, when 44 percent said the Senate should confirm Gorsuch to fill the seated vacated by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, and 32 percent said it should not.
Opinions about Kavanaugh also show a partisan divide that is wider than for most previous high-court nominees before Gorsuch, the researchers found.
For example, 73 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said he should be confirmed; 63 percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners said he should not — a gap comparable to the divide over Gorsuch's nomination last year, Pew reported.
In other findings:
- 39 percent said if Kavanaugh is confirmed, he would vote to overturn the court's Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, 29 percent said he would not vote to overturn the ruling, and 32 percent had no opinion or said it would not matter.
- 31 percent said they worry Kavanaugh would make the Supreme Court too conservative, 11 percent worry he would not make it conservative enough, 46 percent said they were not worried about the issue, and 12 percent had no view.
The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
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