Posted on 10/21/2019 6:53:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The public rejects Democrats’ plans to pack the Supreme Court with more members, but are strikingly eager to impose term limits on the justices, according to a new Marquette University Law School poll released Monday that took a deep dive into Americans’ views of the unelected branch of government.
And Americans are still smarting over Republicans’ move in 2016 to block action on President Obama’s final Supreme Court picking, saving the slot for President Trump to fill.
But should another vacancy occur next year — in the middle of another campaign — the public says they want to see Mr. Trump and the GOP-led Senate fill it, without waiting for the results of the election.
The Marquette survey comes as interest in the Supreme Court is growing, thanks to renewed attention from both political parties, who complain that the court is out of control.
Mr. Trump has lamented the rise of “Obama judges,” while a prominent Senate Democrat has told the court it’s suffering a “crisis of credibility.”
The public, though, rejects both of those complaints.
In fact, when stacked up against Congress and the president, the court is seen as far more credible than the other two branches of government, with a whopping 57% picking the justices, 22% picking Capitol Hill and 215 picking the White House.
“On balance the court does pretty well,” said Charles Franklin, the professor who directs the Marquette poll.
Yet that’s despite — or perhaps because — the public is largely ignorant of the court’s members. A startling 28% of those polled couldn’t recognize a single one of the nine justices, and only 35% knew enough to have formed an opinion about a majority of the court’s members.
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I think that the ppl answering these ‘poll’ questions sometimes DON’T understand the questions.
Wow.
This poll shows how depressingly much the people of this country are mislead by the mediacracy.
More then 28 percent know who RBG is. I find this poll BS as most polls are.
“More then 28 percent know who RBG is.’
28 sounds about right to me, at least for people to have an opinion about her. Maybe 50% of at least heard of her, but the courts are still ‘very complicated’ for most Americans.
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