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Posted: 2020-06-26T00:25:10Z | Updated: 2020-06-29T15:39:40Z

The Supreme Courts recent decisions on protecting LGBTQ people in the workplace and maintaining the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are both popular with the American public, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. Approval for the Supreme Court itself is also up modestly, with the judicial branch seeing newly bipartisan goodwill.

Last Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ employees from discrimination at work on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Then, last Thursday, the court ruled to keep DACA in place , shielding nearly 650,000 undocumented young people from deportation.

Both rulings are well in line with popular opinion. A 69% majority of Americans say they support laws that protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people against discrimination in the workplace, with just 21% opposed. A 57% majority support allowing undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to stay in the country, with 29% opposed. (Other recent polls have found even broader support for both DACA and nondiscrimination laws .)

Americans currently approve of the Supreme Court, 46% to 35%. Underlying that positive impression is a newfound partisan consensus: Nearly identical shares of Republicans (54%) and Democrats (56%) currently say they approve. (Those who identify as political independents hold the lowest opinion of the court.)

The agreement between Democrats and Republicans marks a significant shift from polls taken over the past few years, when one party has tended to be notably warmer than the other toward the judicial branch. In 2015 , after the court preserved a major part of the Affordable Care Act, Democrats broadly approved of the Supreme Courts performance, while Republicans mostly disapproved; in 2018 , those views had more or less flipped, with Republicans about three times likelier than Democrats to approve.