Ideology

Neuroscience

Perception

Supreme Court Decisions

Concurring opinion

Original jurisdiction

Politics

Precedent

Political science

Psychology

Supreme court

Certiorari

Majority opinion

Political Research Quarterly

We develop and assess an account of ideological asymmetries in public support for the Supreme Court. We find that specific support for the Supreme Court is more strongly negatively related to perceptions that the Court is overly liberal than perceptions that the Court is overly conservative. Our findings provide a more complete theoretical account of dynamics in specific support for the Supreme Court and indicate a mechanism behind the recent decline in the Supreme Court’s public standing.

Ideology and Specific Support for the Supreme Court