The Supreme Court's 'crisis of legitimacy' is going from bad to worse

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Elena Kagan, two of the three Democrat-appointed justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, have been warning that public opinion continues to go from bad to worse where the High Court is concerned. According to polls, the Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — which overturned Roe v. Wade after 49 years — is wildly unpopular.

Journalist Matt Ford, in an article published by The New Republic on September 26, stresses that the public’s view of the High Court continues to deteriorate. Post-Dobbs polls, according to Ford, show “a clear and unambiguous shift in how the American people perceive the Court since it overturned Roe v. Wade this summer — and a growing willingness to rein in the justices’ ideological shift.”

“On June 23,” Ford explains, “Gallup found that only 25 percent of Americans said that they had either a great deal of confidence or quite a lot of confidence in the High Court. That represented a 5 percent drop from the previous low in 2014, as well as a 10 percent decline from the 2021 survey. The Gallup poll technically preceded the release of the Court’s decision in Dobbs on June 24. But it came more than a month after Politico published a draft copy of Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in the case, which all but proved that the Court would overturn Roe later that month.”

Ford continues, “Next came a survey by the Pew Research Center on September 1. It incorporated the entire period after Dobbs’ release and found an even deeper shift in public opinion about the Supreme Court in three significant ways. First, it found that the Court’s overall favorability ratings were underwater for the first time since it began asking Americans in 1987, with 49 percent of Americans viewing the Court unfavorably and 48 percent favorably. That was a sharp reversal from two years ago when 70 percent of Americans said they viewed the Court favorably and 28 percent said they didn’t. In essence, nearly a third of Americans have changed their mind about the Supreme Court over the past two years.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-supreme-court-s-crisis-of-legitimacy-is-going-from-bad-to-worse-report/ar-AA12i5Yf



Meanwhile Alito looks contented after eating a pile of shit.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. A quIck look at the Court shows it has usually tended to...

follow the mood of the nation.

Before the Civil War it tended to be pro slavery, but after it tended to be anti. During the early 20th century it tended to be right wing to the extent FDR tried to pack the Court to get some of his reforms through.

Then look at the Court through the 60s and the great liberal revisions. I suspect this has lot to do with the feelings of Congress and the Presidents at the time, reflecting the national mood.

Whatever the reasons, the Court has an ebb and flow, which can be dealt with through limitations on tenure, or expansion its members.

[Me.]

2. Gosh Oh Gravy I Was Wrong Out The Federalist Society's Desire Regarding THe Direction Of The SC

It turns out their plan was to destroy it.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. There are six partisan hacks on the SCOTUS who are ignoring precident