Overview
- Eighty-one percent of U.S. adults tell an NBC News Decision Desk Poll that the Trump administration must comply with federal court rulings
- Supporters of the MAGA movement are evenly divided, with 50 percent backing obedience and 50 percent favoring defiance of court orders
- More than 250 legal challenges and at least 25 nationwide injunctions have targeted administration actions since Trump’s second term began
- Trump officials delayed implementing a Supreme Court order to “facilitate” the return of deported Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia for nearly two months
- Fifty-five percent of Americans hold a favorable view of the Supreme Court as justices prepare key decisions on nationwide injunction powers and birthright citizenship