Public's Views of Supreme Court Turned More Negative Before News of Breyer's Retirement

[sinkingfeeling]

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/02/02/publics-views-of-supreme-court-turned-more-negative-before-news-of-breyers-retirement/?utm_campaign=2022-02-09+Rundown&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Pew&subscriberkey=0030e00002JdVFUAA3

Among the other findings from the new survey:

Changing views of the court’s ideology. The share of adults saying the Supreme Court is conservative has increased since 2020, from 30% to 38%. Still, more say the court is “middle of the road” (48%), while 9% say it is liberal. A majority of Democrats (57%) say the court is conservative, compared with 18% of Republicans.

Majority says Supreme Court has the right amount of power. Nearly six-in-ten (58%) say the court has the right amount of power, but that has slipped since 2020 (from 65%) as more Americans – Democrats, in particular – say it has too much power.

Broad skepticism that justices are not influenced by politics. Among the overwhelming majority of adults (84%) who say Supreme Court justices should not bring their own political views into the cases they decide, just 16% say they do an excellent or good job in keeping their views out of their decisions. However, both Republicans and Democrats are much more likely to say justices nominated by presidents of their own party achieve this than do justices nominated by presidents from the other party.

Narrow majority of Democrats now view Supreme Court unfavorably
Over the past year, there has been a sharp decline in the share of Democrats and Democratic leaners who hold favorable views of the Supreme Court. In early 2021, roughly two-thirds (65%) said they had a favorable opinion of the court. Today, that has declined 19 percentage points, and Democrats are now more likely to have an unfavorable (53%) than a favorable (46%) view of the court.

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Lots of great graphs in article from Pew Research Center

[zaj]

1. Who are these people?

I guess, just like in 2016, they have to look back on history before they can recognize what the reality was in the moment.

[True Blue American]

3. I will never forgive Bush vs. Gore under Rehnquist.

[FreepFryer]

2. When a Republican is anything other than bloodthirsty when describing SCOTUS...

...I might believe the bullshit they spew