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Thursday, December 21st, 2023

Favorable views of Supreme Court fall to historic low

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Source:     Pew Research Center
Publication Date:     July 21, 2023
 Link: Favorable views of Supreme Court fall to historic low
Stephan:  

I think we are headed for a major crisis if the Supreme Court overturns Colorado Supreme Court. And it will get even more dramatic if another state chooses to take criminal Trump off the primary ballot. The U.S. Supreme Court is already at the lowest level of respect it has had, as this Pew Research Center research shows us, an this was from last July. It is even lower now I suspect, and we are about to learn whether the “originalists” are sincere or it is just another scam. We are getting to a point where either a majority of Americans demands respect for democracy, or Trump is re-elected and we become an autocracy.

Following a series of high-profile rulings addressing such issues as affirmative action, LGBTQ rights and student loans, the share of Americans with a favorable opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to its lowest point in public opinion surveys dating to 1987.  

Fewer than half of Americans (44%) now express a favorable opinion of the court, while a narrow majority (54%) have an unfavorable view, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

Opinions of the court have become somewhat less positive since April, when about half of Americans had a favorable impression.

The court’s favorable rating has declined 26 percentage points since 2020. The current survey marks the first time in our polling dating to 1987 that the public’s views of the Supreme Court are significantly more negative than positive.

How Democrats and Republicans see the Supreme Court

Just 24% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents view the Supreme Court favorably, down 7 percentage points since April and the lowest favorable rating for the court in either party in more than 30 years.

As recently as 2021 – before the court’s decision last year to overturn the federal right to abortion, as well as […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 8:42 am

    The Supreme Court of the U.S. has become a very stupid group of Republican idiots! It should be changed toward a more Republican/Democratic mix of people to reflect the PEOPLE of our Country!