Supreme Court

Supporters of Donald Trump and Joe Biden differ widely on the issues that are "very important" to their vote.

For the second time in four years, the U.S. Supreme Court is beginning its term with only eight justices. Here are five facts about the court.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans (65%) said in August that the U.S. Supreme Court has the right amount of power.

Christians are more likely than religiously unaffiliated Americans to see the Supreme Court favorably (69% vs. 51%).

Three-quarters of Republicans have a favorable opinion of the Supreme Court, compared with only about half of Democrats.

The share of Americans who favor same sex marriage has grown in recent years, though there are still demographic and partisan divides.

Ahead of the Senate’s deliberations over Kavanaugh, here’s a look at where the public stands on some of the major legal, political and social issues that could come before the Supreme Court in the years ahead.

A week after Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the Supreme Court, the public is split in its early views of the nomination.

Trump has successfully appointed more federal appeals court judges so far in his presidency than his two predecessors combined had at the same point in theirs. And with his nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Trump soon could install his second justice on the nation’s highest court, too.

A majority of Americans now say the Supreme Court should base its rulings on what the Constitution means today, representing a shift in public opinion.