Americans have never trusted the Supreme Court less

Axios ^ | 09/30/2066 | Avery Lotz

[Responsibility2nd]

Americans' trust and confidence in the judicial branch has hit a new low as the Supreme Court prepares for a new term, according to Gallup.

The big picture: The justices return to the bench after spending their summer making consequential emergency-docket decisions allowing some (but not all) of President Trump's most controversial executive actions to proceed.

 

 

Driving the news: Since 2022, fewer than half of Americans have reported a great deal or a fair amount of trust and confidence in the judicial branch, headed by the Supreme Court — a share that had never dipped below 50% before in Gallup's trend stretching back to 1972.

• 54% reported having not very much trust and confidence or none at all.

• The slice who disapprove of how the Supreme Court is handling its job is tied for the record high — 61%, recorded in September and July of this year — while the share who approve has fallen under 35% for the second survey in a row.

Between the lines: The percentage who reported at least a fair amount of trust in the judicial branch slipped below half for the first time in Gallup's trend in September 2022, some three months after the justices voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.

• Democrats have largely driven the trust freefall, with those who have at least a fair about of trust and confidence down to 23%. In 2020, more than half (58%) shared that sentiment.
• Trust among independents has also plummeted by some 20 points, down to 42% today.

 

Yes, but: The Republican in the White House has been displeased with his own SCOTUS picks this term.

• Trump raged at the Supreme Court earlier this month for rejecting his mail-in voting rule rewrite, global tariffs and birthright citizenship policy, writing in a lengthy Truth Social post that "[t]hese are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court."
• However, a plurality in Gallup's poll (43%) said the court was too conservative, while 17% said it was too liberal, and 35% said it was about right.
• While Trump didn't get his way on those three major cases, the Supreme Court has green-lit his stricter asylum rules, Temporary Protected Status revocations, White House ballroom construction, FTC firings and more in recent months.

What we're watching: The court will release an order list and hear its first oral arguments of the term on Monday in cases related to climate change and veterans' benefits.

• The justices may be starting a new term, but they aren't getting a clean slate in the court of public opinion.

Go deeper: Trump turns on the Supreme Court he helped build

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: scotus

[Responsibility2nd]

On any given day, I trust about 2/7 of them. Maybe 3 out of 7.

[rktman]

You’re probably right. Sad days. Interpret, don’t alter it.

[Ge0ffrey]

Propaganda works.

[wny]

I’d bet more than half of Americans couldn’t name 4 Justices.

[ansel12]

People don’t keep up with the Supreme Court Justices, this is really a survey of how the media is treating the SC in news coverage at the time.

[CaptainK]

It's the hangover from Roe. Hysterical women who still fear no access to abortion even when they are menopausal

[SPDSHDW]

Bet you they know the wide latina, and believe souter and RBG to be on the court still.

[kawhill]

What about Amy?

[lastchance]

Yours is an excellent take on the subject.

[quantim]

Just think, if our Uniparty Congress did their damned job for a change as decades roll by we wouldn’t be $40 trillion in debt and SCOTUS wouldn’t be making all these rulings and leaving RINOs begging for votes. JMO.

[God luvs America]

Yup- they go by what the criminal liberal media tells them...

If you remember in the lead up to the obamacare ruling the criminal liberal media was telling Americans the court needed to be disbanded because no one believed they would approve obamacare...of course once they did that same criminal liberal media was hailing “the court saved themselves!!”

[Responsibility2nd]

Pretty Accurate. The Wise Latina is so far left, she barely makes the chart.

[PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut]

A compromised woman was confirmed into America’s highest court who showed herself to be so compromised that she refused to tell the truth of the biological definition of a woman. I do not trust a compromised woman to do the right constitutional thing when it serves her personally to do a compromised agenda. Do not ever vote for democrats to run our government.

[PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut]

A compromised woman was confirmed into America’s highest court who showed herself to be so compromised that she refused to tell the truth of the biological definition of a woman. I do not trust a compromised woman to do the right constitutional thing when it serves her personally to do a compromised agenda. Do not ever vote for democrats to run our government.

[PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut]

A compromised woman was confirmed into America’s highest court who showed herself to be so compromised that she refused to tell the truth of the biological definition of a woman. I do not trust a compromised woman to do the right constitutional thing when it serves her personally to do a compromised agenda. Do not ever vote for democrats to run our government.

[glennaro]

This is what happens when the USSC’s primary criterion for adjudicating cases brought to them changes from “original intent” to “political convenience”.

[SuperLuminal]

Absolutely!
IAC, it is Axios, for goodness sake...

Next, we’ll be getting a post with a picture of a Tijuana bar toilet bowl...

[ProgressingAmerica]

June 3rd journalists report for the day: The Supreme Court Sucks
June 15th journalists report for the day: The Supreme Court Sucks
July 1st journalists report for the day: The Supreme Court Sucks
July 22nd journalists report for the day: The Supreme Court Sucks
August 8th journalists report for the day: The Supreme Court Sucks
August 12th journalists report for the day: The Supreme Court Sucks
August 28th journalists report for the day: The Supreme Court Sucks
September 9th journalists report for the day: The Supreme Court Sucks

Journalists decide: Let’s run a poll!

Journalists discover: Hey, people dislike the Supreme Court. Where did that come from? We have no idea!!!!

[Carl Vehse]

The fact that the SCOTUS approval ratings dropped sharply following the Dobbs decision indicates that the survey was based on the opinions of lying, perverted, murdering, traitorous Demonicrats.

[GOPJ]

Last time I answered a poll was years ago when I realized (as a conservative) I was being set up to give answers to assist democrats with a delusion.

The questions were brilliant in that task.

Haven’t answered a poll since. I’m guessing between conservatives refusing to participate, slanted questions, call numbers favoring democrats and questionable pollsters - - that most polls are biased in democrat’s favor and worthless.