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New Marquette Law School national survey finds 60% disapprove of the work of ICE, with Democrats and independents opposed to ICE and Republicans in favor
A new Marquette Law School poll finds 40% of adults nationwide approve of the way U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, is handling its job, while 60% disapprove. The poll was conducted after the shooting in Minneapolis of Renee Good, but with most interviews completed before the shooting of Alex Pretti on Jan.…
Marquette University’s BLEST Hub releases report on dual enrollment in Milwaukee
Just 3.8% of high school students in Milwaukee are participating in dual enrollment programs according to a report released by the Black and Latino/a Ecosystem and Support Transition Hub.
Ripple Effect
With law students actively participating, the Water Law and Policy Initiative is building a strong record of shedding light on major issues.
Poll Results Illuminate American Civic Life
This article is a complementary piece to “Courts or Community Conversations?“ Let us begin by recalling a famous dictum from 1840: “The political associations which exist in the United States are only a single feature in the midst of the immense assemblage of associations in that country. Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all…
Courts or Community Conversations?
Hon. Michael Y. Scudder is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. This is a lightly edited version of the E. Harold Hallows Lecture, delivered at Marquette University Law School on March 3, 2025, and titled “Article III Standing as the Guardian of Free Speech and Democratic Self-Governance.” The lecture…
Connectivity (We Don’t Mean Wi-Fi)
This article is a complementary piece to “Courts or Community Conversations?“ Judge Michael Scudder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Professor Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll, are both observers of the dynamics of American civic life. Put them together for a dialogue conducted both in person…
Louisiana’s ‘Let Teachers Teach’ Plan Strikes a Chord
Illustrations by Robert Neubecker This is a sidebar to a longer essay, “What if . . . K–12 Education Reform Efforts Focused on Making Teaching Jobs More Doable?“ Louisiana as a leader in education improvement? The idea would have drawn guffaws for many years. The state had some of the weakest K–12 education records in…
What If…
Illustrations by Robert Neubecker Taylor Thompson was concerned how things would go in her first year as a first-grade teacher in a public elementary school in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. And, in fact, she found teaching during that 2024–2025 school year to be hard work. “Each day is not rainbows and singing and dancing,” she said. But…
Principals Can Play Big Roles in Teacher Success
This is a sidebar to a longer essay, “What if . . . K–12 Education Reform Efforts Focused on Making Teaching Jobs More Doable?“ Illustrations by Robert Neubecker While pay and benefits matter, the research is clear that many teachers who quit their jobs cite low job satisfaction. And many of them attribute this in…
Collecting Posts on Seventh Circuit Day
It was a great privilege for Marquette University Law School to host the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Eckstein Hall earlier this semester (September 25, 2025). The following blog posts form a now-complete series seeking to capture some aspects of the day: Sincere thanks to all—the Court and its staff, those…