Trust in the Supreme Court is at its lowest level in at least 40 years, seemingly due to the Court’s decision to overturn federal abortion protections.
by far right extremists on the Supreme Court this summer, new polling finds that trust in the federal judicial branch, which includes the High Court, is at its lowest level in at least 40 years.on Thursday, only 47 percent of Americans say they have a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of trust in the federal judicial branch. This is down 20 points from 2020, and is the lowest amount of confidence that Gallup has recorded since it began measuring confidence in the federal judicial branch in 1972 .
Much of this distrust appears to come from disapproval of the Supreme Court. The poll found that disapproval of the Court is at a record high of 58 percent, while approval is tied with its record low of 40 percent, last seen in 2021. The disapproval seems to stem directly from the Court’s decision to overturn federal abortion protections in theForty-two percent of Americans — also a record high, according to Gallup — think that the Supreme Court is too conservative. For the first time in Gallup’s nearly 30-year history polling this question, the proportion of people who think the Supreme Court is too partisan has exceeded the amount of people who say that the justices’ ideological leanings are “just right.
Gallup’s findings demonstrate the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the decades-old precedent set byThat the decision has hurt the public’s view of the Court is no surprise
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