A new FindLaw.com survey suggests most Americans have some brushing up to do on their knowledge of the United States Supreme Court.
According to the survey, nearly two-thirds of Americans cannot name even one member of the court!
Clarence Thomas is the most well known justice but could be named by only 19 percent of Americans.
Chief Justice John Roberts was named by 16 percent of people surveyed. Sonia Sotomayor, the newest justice, could be named by only 15 percent of Americans.
According to FindLaw, only one percent of Americans could correctly name all nine current members of the Supreme Court.
To help you follow the court, FindLaw has a number of free Internet resources, such as the FindLaw Supreme Court Center. You also can visit the U.S. Supreme Court website for the current and historical Supreme Court calendars, dockets, decisions, opinions and briefs, as well as Supreme Court history and biographies of justices.
The FindLaw.com survey was a telephone survey of 1,000 American adults and has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3 percent.
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Kevin: Thanks for this. May I ask some questions about the methodology? Was the survey sample randomly selected? And what was the response rate?
I’ll look into that for you and post what I find, here in the comments.
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