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Respondents rate the U.S. Supreme Court on a seven-point liberal to conservative scale; asked in separate CES waves (2018, 2022, 2024) with the same wording and scale.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 21% answered “Conservative” in CES: Rated ideology of the U.S. Supreme Court, 2024.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| CES: Ideological placement of the Supreme Court | Ideological placement of the Supreme Court How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [The United States Supreme Court] Caveat: Same scale; the Court's composition changed over time | identical | Very Liberal → Very liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Somewhat liberal; Middle of the Road → Middle of the road; Somewhat Conservative → Somewhat conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Very conservative |
| CES: Rating of the Supreme Court's ideology | Rating of the Supreme Court's ideology How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [The U.S. Supreme Court] Caveat: Same scale; the Court's composition changed over time | identical | Very Liberal → Very liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Somewhat liberal; Middle of the Road → Middle of the road; Somewhat Conservative → Somewhat conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Very conservative |
| CES: Rated ideology of the U.S. Supreme Court | Rated ideology of the U.S. Supreme Court How would you rate each of the following individuals and groups? [The U.S. Supreme Court] Caveat: Same scale; the Court's composition changed over time | identical | Very Liberal → Very liberal; Liberal → Liberal; Somewhat Liberal → Somewhat liberal; Middle of the Road → Middle of the road; Somewhat Conservative → Somewhat conservative; Conservative → Conservative; Very Conservative → Very conservative |