Three surveys collected over a decade by three scholars document what many believe to be true: The U.S. Supreme Court is more conservative than the majority of Americans.

The surveys’ conclusions, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “show that the gap between the court and the public has grown since 2020, with the court moving from being quite close to the average American to a position that is more conservative than the majority of Americans.”

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