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 ...

In the presidential immunity case, one worry is that even if lower courts deem much of Trump’s Jan. 6 conduct to have been unofficial, and thus subject to prosecution, the Supreme Court’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only Kagan seems to have any awareness that the court’s stature is a precious resource that can be lost if the institution runs too far away from the public or if the court begins to treat the ...

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 ”: ...