National survey finds four-point increase in overall public approval of U.S. Supreme Court’s performance and plurality support of five recent major decisions

A new Marquette Law School Poll national survey finds that 45% of adults approve of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing and 55% disapprove. While approval remains below disapproval, this is a 4-percentage point increase in approval since May and the second highest rating since March 2022, when […] Read more »

Supreme Court decision highlights racial disparities in higher education

The Supreme Court’s June decision putting an end to the use of affirmative action in higher education admissions paved the way for potentially dramatic changes in who gets into college and where they go. The case revolved around affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, but […] Read more »

Recent Supreme Court rulings alienate the left but are hardly unpopular

After a series of key setbacks for their side on affirmative action, gay weddings and student loan debt forgiveness, Democrats are again railing against the Supreme Court. They have lumped the decisions in with perhaps the court’s most unpopular and consequential adverse ruling in recent times: the overturning of Roe […] Read more »

Americans split on recent Supreme Court decisions

In polling conducted June 30-July 1, 2023—just after the Supreme Court overturned affirmative action, struck down the Biden student loan forgiveness plan, and ruled in favor of a web designer seeking to deny services to a same-sex couple—a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds the American public is split on the […] Read more »

Curtailing Affirmative Action Is a Blow Against a Rising Generation

With today’s decision curtailing affirmative action in higher education, the Supreme Court has landed another powerful blow for older white America in its struggle against the kaleidoscopically diverse and more populous younger generations for control of the nation’s direction. The ruling by the Court’s six Republican-appointed justices prevents higher-education institutions […] Read more »