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Solomon Islands remained under a state of public emergency throughout 2022. The country continued to tighten its border control with strict quarantine and entry requirements that controlled the movement of ships and people arriving on international flights. These requirements were breached when "6 cases of community transmission in the Ontong Java [Luangiua] group of islands" were detected by health authorities on 18 January (OCHA 2022a). On 19 January it was reported in the local media that a passenger from the vessel Akwa, which was in Luangiua in early January and arrived in Honiara on 10 January, tested positive for COVID-19. The prime minister in his special media address expressed that "after two years of keeping the virus from entering our community … the virus has finally entered our community." (Contemp Pac/GIGA).

This article is a first attempt to develop and assess the competing predictions of the thermostatic model of public opinion and legitimation theory for the responses of public mood to Supreme Court decisions. While the thermostatic model predicts a negative relationship between the ideological direction of Supreme Court decisions and changes in public mood, legitimation theory predicts that changes in mood should be positively associated with the ideological content of the Court's actions. I assess these rival expectations by modeling the dynamic relationship between mood and cumulative judicial liberalism. The model estimates indicate a complex interaction between the Court and the mass public characterized by short-term backlash against Supreme Court decisions in mood followed by long-run movement toward the ideological positions taken by the Court. The results emphasize the legitimacy of the Court in American politics and point to a unique role for the Court in shaping public opinion. Adapted from the source document.