Confidence In Supreme Court Hits Record Low, Poll Finds

[RKP5637]

Not surprised. I have difficulties gathering much respect for SCOTUS. Others feel the same.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/30/supreme-court-poll_n_5544322.html

A new poll released just as the Supreme Court dealt significant blows to women and workers finds that Americans' confidence in the judicial branch is at a record low.

The Gallup survey released Monday found that just 30 percent of respondents have a "great deal" or a "quite a lot" of confidence in the high court, down seven points from the 2012 survey and marking the lowest approval number for the court since Gallup first started tracking confidence in the court in 1973. The court has not received approval ratings above 40 percent since 2007, one year after George W. Bush appointee Samuel Alito's confirmation.

The poll was conducted June 5 through June 8, well before Monday's high profile decisions were handed down.

In Harris v. Quinn, the court ruled 5-4 that some government workers are not required to pay dues to public sector unions. And in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the justices decided that closely held corporations cannot be required to provide their employees with contraception coverage.

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Yeah, well my confidence in the American electorate "hits a new low". This could've been prevented.

[alsame]

2. They don't care and

have no reason to. They are accountable to no one, they will never be impeached.

IMO, once Roberts and Alito got there, they decided they no longer needed even the slightest veneer of constitutional impartiality and just started ramming through an agenda of fascism/corporatism.

[RKP5637]

3. They are working in concert to undermine and destroy the US. n/t