Confidence in Supreme Court swings DOWN Whopping 40 Points Since Amy Coney Barrett Joined: New Poll

[Demovictory9]

The latest poll of 1,577 U.S. adults was conducted in the days after last Monday’s leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito signaling the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The new survey found Americans being evenly split on whether or not they have confidence in the court.

Half of voters said they had “some” or “a lot” of confidence in the court – 37 and 14 percent respectively. Meanwhile, 24 percent of registered voters said they have “a little” confidence in the court, while a whopping 26 percent now have “none.”

Among all Americans, the poll found that 53 percent new say they have no or “a little” confidence in the Supreme Court – 28 and 25 percent respectively.

Romano notes that the poll offers insights into why the confidence in the court has eroded so profoundly, so quickly.

He points out that while respondents are split on whether or not the leak was a good thing, “the ideological shift of the Supreme Court may be the bigger issue.”

Romano breaks down the numbers:

In September 2020, 29% of registered voters saw the court as either “conservative” (25%) or “very conservative” (4%). Today, that combined number is 44%, with nearly six times as many voters as before saying “very conservative” (22%).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/confidence-in-supreme-court-swings-whopping-40-points-since-amy-coney-barrett-joined-new-poll-finds/ar-AAX7mYa

[brewens]

1. I must be tired. "Swings" meant went up to me at first and that made no sense at all!

I'm going WTF? How did it improve? LOL

[Demovictory9]

2. fixed thread title

[TwilightZone]

6. Swing can mean either way.

Like, well, a swing. What goes up also goes down.

[BootinUp]

3. Good job Roberts. Nt

[empedocles]

4. roberts has very little control over the court, but has the onus of 'the Roberts Court'

[TwilightZone]

7. Not really his fault.

I think he was about as unhappy about Kavanaugh joining as the rest of us. I think he saw the writing on the wall and knew that Kavanaugh's hyper-partisanship was going to be an anchor. Coney Barrett was just the rancid icing on the cake.

That being said, decisions like gutting the Voting Rights Act certainly didn't help its reputation.

[czarjak]

21. "Racism is dead" (To me anyway) was a giveaway.

[TwilightZone]

22. Agreed.

In the era of Trump's never-ending stream of nonsense, Roberts still managed to make one of the most ridiculous statements in memory.

[uponit7771]

5. MAGA: "... Mission Accomplished..."

[IronLionZion]

8. She's supremely qualified

[NYC Liberal]

9. Well, at least they'll be off the bench in a few years when their terms end.

Oh, wait.

At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account.

- Thomas Jefferson

[keithbvadu2]

11. Repubs used to be against judicial activism.

Repubs used to be against judicial activism.

They've gotten over that.

[BlueIdaho]

13. But she does go to church regularly

That’s all the proof republicans needed to stick her sorry ass on the bench for life.

[Hekate]

19. And in the church she goes to, she was literally called a Handmaiden as an adult...

People of Praise is pretty cult-like

[BlueIdaho]

20. Without a doubt.

[MarcA]

17. +1000 n/t

[Johnny2X2X]

10. It's a purely political court now

They will decide solely based on what Republican leaderships tell them to, so don't look for any consistency in their rulings. One ruling will now completely be at odds legally with the next so long as they're taking their orders from the Republican Party.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Qualifications

Link to tweet

[Turbineguy]

14. The GOP calls that "success"

and so does Putin.

[MarcA]

16. People catching on to what Unelected Job for Life Positions

can do to the masses. Of course, the Oligarchic Rulers see this as a feature
not as a problem. It also diminishes the Peoples' trust in their government
which is something else the Oligarchs support. Too bad we can't have Retention
Elections for Fed Judges like we do for State and Local Judges in many
Jurisdictions. It's all part of the larger Authoritarian Mindset.

[Hekate]

18. At this point, I have none

[spooky3]

23. I have confidence in and respect for the minority only. Nt

[UTUSN]

24. K&R

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

25. Poll after linked article 61% say their confidence in the Supreme Court has decreased a lot

in the last ten years.

Not scientific I know but interesting

[Grins]

26. Sotomayor nailed it.

Conservatism destroyed the court. Tried to tell them; over and over for decades.

And…..we’re fucked!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. Who is surprised by this?

Between the abuse of the Shadow Docket and the latest rulings, the SCOTUS has six conservative/partisan hacks on it