The Court, in effect, must decide whether to keep the map intact or to allocate another seat to Democrats by taking it away from Republicans. No one can say how public opinion would rule on this ...

A Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade would be at odds with the views of most Americans, according to recent public opinion polls. Tom Brenner for The New York Times ...

We recognize that the emergency docket is a necessary part of Supreme Court business. It allows the court to address urgent ...

She has become the great dissenter, sometimes siding with Justices Sonia Sotomayor or Elena Kagan or sometimes standing alone ...

Today kicks off the first day of the Supreme Court’s new term, and to mark the occasion, we decided to take a look at where public opinion of the institution stands and how it might be shaped by ...

Voting along ideological lines is viewed aspart of the deterioration of the public's confidence in the nation's highest court. Forty-seven percent of Americans expressed a favorable view, and 51 ...

Ms. Greenhouse, the recipient of a 1998 Pulitzer Prize, reported on the Supreme Court for The Times from 1978 to 2008 and was a contributing Opinion writer from 2009 to 2021. A few years before ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on July 14. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post) Regarding the July 22 news article “ Kagan warns of threat to democracy if Supreme Court ignores public opinion ”: ...

A Supreme Court decision legitimizing the independent state legislature doctrine could destroy public trust in the legitimacy of the judiciary and electoral systems, which isn’t just a voting ...