The UMass Amherst Poll released results of a national survey conducted May 31-June 8, which measured the temperature of the country on a plethora of issues, including racial and cultural issues and the public’s view of the Supreme Court.

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Among the key findings of the poll were:

• Nine in 10 Americans support the establishment of a code of conduct for Supreme Court justices
   
• Americans also favor term limits for Supreme Court justices by a wide margin – 65% say the justices should serve a set number of terms
   
• A plurality of Americans – 42% – say that affirmative action in college admissions should be discontinued and race and ethnicity should no longer factor into such decisions, while 33% support the continued use of such criteria in admissions decisions
   
• While a majority of Americans understand the history of Juneteenth, only 42% – and just 13% of Republicans – support it being a federal holiday
   
• Respondents were closely split on whether the United States has “made a lot of progress toward achieving equality between white Americans and people of color,” with 51% saying that the nation has, while 49% said the country still “has a long way to go to achieve equality”
   
• While over 60% of Democrats and progressives express support for diversity in films and television, less than 20% of Republicans and conservatives express this same viewpoint
   
• Americans are divided on policies that would preclude trans children and their parents from receiving gender-affirming medical care – 39% of the poll’s respondents are in favor of these medical restrictions and 35% are opposed to such restrictions, with such policies particularly popular among Republicans and conservatives as more than six in 10 support restricting the rights of trans children and their parents

The poll of 1,133 respondents was conducted by YouGov and had a margin of error of error of 3.4%.