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A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that Americans’ confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court has collapsed over the last 20 months — a period that began with former President Donald Trump and ...
The Supreme Court’s approval rating stands at 40%, according to a new poll released Wednesday, underscoring the public’s stagnant view of the institution as the justices grapple with cases ...
The poll comes as the Supreme Court stands smack in the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign and is a top election issue for large numbers of voters – especially Democrats.
To further discern the justices' ideological leanings, researchers have carefully analyzed the judicial rulings of the Supreme Court—the votes and written opinions of the justices—as well as their upbringing, their political party affiliation, their speeches, their political contributions before appointment, editorials written about them at the time of their Senate confirmation, the ...
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that more than six in 10 Americans (61%) now have little or no confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court after its decision Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade .
This was the closest Supreme Court confirmation ever to a presidential election, and the first Supreme Court nomination since 1869 with no supporting votes from the minority party. [201] It was also one of the fastest timelines from nomination to confirmations in U.S. history. [202] [203]
In 2018, Pence cast a tie-breaking vote to confirm Jonathan A. Kobes to the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, the first such vote to confirm a judicial nominee in U.S. history. [ 12 ] Following the 2020 Senate elections , the Senate was divided 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats in the 117th Congress .
The poll of 1,088 adults found that 4 in 10 U.S. adults say they have hardly any confidence in the people running the Supreme Court, in line with an AP-NORC poll from October.