Confirmation hearings continue in Washington today for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett .
So how do Texans feel about efforts to rush her nomination through this close to an election? Turns out they're about split.
According the the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, 47% of Texans polled said the senate should vote on President Trump's appointee Amy Coney Barrett while 41% said they should do so only if the president wins re-election.
Joshua Blank with the Texas politics project at UT Austin says the results fall along party lines. "Unsurprisingly, 81% of Republicans say the senate should go ahead with a vote while 77% of Democrats said they should only go ahead if President Trump is re-elected."
He says 27 percent of those polled said the Supreme Court and the judiciary are the government branch they trust the most. He says "The judicial branch used to be the most trusted branch of the government until the Robert's court legalized same sex marriage, and upheld the Affordable Care Act. At which point Republicans abandoned the judicial branch as their most trusted branch."
The poll showed the executive branch was the one most trusted by Republicans at 55%, followed by the judicial branch at 25% and congress at only 4%.
Democrats most trust the courts at 31%, followed by congress at 24% and then the legislative branch at 24% and then the executive branch at at 4%.
