The Supreme Court’s popularity among Republicans has taken a serious dive, a new Gallup poll finds, while Democrats have embraced the court more than ever.
According to the survey released Thursday, 76 percent of Democrats approve of the Supreme Court, up from 47 percent in September 2014, while Republican approval has sunk 17 percentage points to the current 18 percent in the same time period. In the meantime, approval among Independents has increased slightly, from 46 percent to 49 percent.
Gallup used telephone interviews to survey 1,009 adults nationwide between July 8-12, 2015, for a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
The survey comes after the Supreme Court decided a number of big cases that roiled conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts, a Republican appointee, along with five other justices, upheld Obamacare’s federal subsidies in late June. Days later, the high court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide by a 5-4 vote. Some, like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a Harvard-educated lawyer who is running for President, are calling for Supreme Court justices to be subjected to retention elections every eight years.
This approval rating being so low among Republicans just shows how many Republicans are really homophobes and selfish bstrds who don’t want the government spending their tax dollars to serve those who are poor, injured, disabled, and sick through the ACA.
Well that is a little disappointing, the fact that Kennedy is sane on gay rights and that Robert’s didn’t want to throw the Health Care Market into a death spiral that would have cost Insurance Companies a fortune is no reason to forget about the hackery of this court in cases like Citizens United or Hobby Lobby. Democrats need to work on their long term memory and not forget some of the dangerous precedents and corporate giveaways set by the Robert’s court, just because the court made a couple of recent sane rulings.
Yes, agree with you, many people of both sides of the aisle have very short memories, and Democrats seem to forget the damage done to our democracy by the Citizen’s United decision, which basically destroyed much of what used to be the democratic process of holding fair elections.
Those lunatics are only happy if they’re winning 100% of the time and if people are being hurt.
The BIG deal for me is ‘Citizens United’. That was an unequivocal disaster for the Democratic Party and a crippling blow to any fantasy of a true and unfettered democracy. That the majority of Democrats don’t see this is very disappointing indeed.