With the marshal's cry of "Oyez!" on Monday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court—"that eminent tribunal," as President Abraham Lincoln described it—is set to once again hold forth on some of the biggest controversies facing the country.

More than two years have passed since the court's conservative majority dashed the nearly 50-year-old right to abortion to the rocks of constitutional history in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. But unlike after Bush v. Gore, a similarly nation-splitting event two decades earlier, the court's popularity has yet to fully recover.