Most Americans oppose packing the Supreme Court, split on lifetime appointments: poll

Most Americans, 68%, are opposed to efforts to pack the Supreme Court with more justices, but they are split on whether the justices should be appointed to the court for life, according to a poll released Monday.

The Supreme Court has had nine justices for more than 150 years, but some politicians and progressive activist groups have proposed "court packing," or adding more judges to alter the court's ideological balance in their favor. 

While 68% of respondents said they are opposed to court packing, 25% are in favor, including 44% of Democrats, according to a poll commissioned by the First Liberty Institute, a Christian conservative legal nonprofit, and conducted by the Florida-based Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy.

Americans are more evenly split on their support of lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court, with 48% in favor and 49% opposed, the poll shows.

This telephone poll of 1,100 registered voters nationwide was conducted from May 30-June 2 and has a 3% error margin.

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