The Supreme Court is poised to make dramatic changes in the national legal landscape this month, and Americans don’t seem happy about that at all.
Only 1 in 4 Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the high court, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday. That’s a record low, and down 11 percentage points from this time last year.
Confidence in the court among Democrats is down to 13%, as the conservative supermajority flexes its muscle. The poll was taken in early June, after a draft Supreme Court opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade had been leaked