Gallup: Record low 25% of Americans have confidence in Supreme Court

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

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