Poll: Terror suspect rights important

Beginning today, The Pew Research Center will conduct a survey about the importance of various Supreme Court Decisions. Those surveyed were asked to rank court decisions as "very important", "fairly important", "not too important", or "not at all important". 62% of those surveyed will rank court decisions on terror suspect rights as "very important".

Importance of Supreme Court Decisions

	Very	Less	Don't
	important	important	know
	%	%	%
Abortion	63	36	1
Terror suspect rights	62	37	1
Religious displays	55	44	1
Lawsuit award limits	49	49	2
Affirmative action	43	54	3

A breakdown of percentage who viewed suspect rights as "very important" by demographic is below

Rated terror suspect rights as "very important"

	Very important (%)
Total	62
Non-White	70
White	59
Conserv Repub	62
Mod/Lib Repub	58
Independent	62
Mod/Cons Dem	67
Liberal Dem	58
White Protestant Evangelical	69
White Protestant Mainline	52
White Catholic	57
Secular	62