Polls on the Supreme Court update 10/4/22

NATIONAL POLL: Negative job rating for US Supreme Court (37% approve to 54% disapprove). A majority have disapproved of #SCOTUS since the abortion decision leak in May.

DISAPPROVE by PARTY:
DEM – 81%
IND – 54%
REP – 28% https://t.co/WJdcwK5yzJ pic.twitter.com/N8FmrmzAkK
— MonmouthPoll (@MonmouthPoll) September 30, 2022

NEW POLL: Supreme Court Trust, Job Approval at Historical Lows https://t.co/mm0jghap82
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) September 29, 2022

In general, do you think the current Supreme Court is too liberal, too conservative, or just about right?

Too liberal 18%
Too conservative 42%
About right 38%

(Gallup Poll, 9/1-16/22)
trend: https://t.co/wOtlkkLIG2
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) October 4, 2022

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Is the current Supreme Court in touch or out of touch with the values and beliefs of most Americans?

In touch 34%
Out of touch 59%

(Monmouth U. Poll, 9/21-25/22)
more: https://t.co/wOtlkkLIG2
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) October 3, 2022

Do you approve or disapprove of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing?

Approve 37%
Disapprove 54%

(Monmouth U. Poll, 9/21-25/22)
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) September 30, 2022

The Supreme Court is currently a lifetime appointment. Would you support or oppose creating term limits for Supreme Court justices?

Support 66%
Oppose 31%

(Monmouth U. Poll, 9/21-25/22)
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) September 30, 2022

In its 35 years of polling on the Supreme Court, Pew has never documented a wider partisan gap in views of the institution https://t.co/Q5jtvy1328
— TIME (@TIME) September 5, 2022

There’s never been a more partisan court than now during that time

The Supreme Court's ratings have plummeted by 33 points — to net -7% — after Republican justices overturned Roe v Wade.

This includes a dramatic -45% swing among independents, who now view the Court negatively.https://t.co/FTl8jMS0Um pic.twitter.com/0D6vtmn5GY
— Chris Kang (@cdkang76) August 29, 2022

NATIONAL POLL: Two-thirds (66%) of Americans would support creating term limits for US Supreme Court justices. Just 31% are opposed.

SUPPORT #SCOTUS TERM LIMITS by PARTY:
DEM – 86%
IND – 63%
REP – 51%https://t.co/WJdcwK5yzJ
— MonmouthPoll (@MonmouthPoll) September 30, 2022

NATIONAL POLL: Just 36% support expanding US Supreme Court to more than nine justices. A majority (60%) are opposed.

SUPPORT #SCOTUS EXPANSION by PARTY:
DEM – 67%
IND – 30%
REP – 14%https://t.co/WJdcwKnHNR
— MonmouthPoll (@MonmouthPoll) September 30, 2022

Term limits on the Supreme Court will take too long to have an impact

The Supreme Court is in new and perilous territory, the Editorial Board writes.https://t.co/KlfBBwzPqt
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) September 17, 2022

what I wrote in comments on the Washington Post site.

Your editorial supporting term limits states “The reform would take a long time to work.” Are we supposed to put up with 30 more years of the extremist court until the Trump justices are gone? (I assume it would not apply to current justice.) This right-wing court will continue to do damage so this would not solve the problem any time soon. I expect them to endorse the independent state legislature theory in the next term. Term limits are a good idea but something else must be done sooner.

One thing that should be done is a law requiring the Senate to have hearings and a vote on any presidential nominee for the Supreme Court. A repeat McConnell’s shameful behavior on Garland is unacceptable.

Since your idea would exempt current justices, we would probably be stuck with the extremist Supreme Court (R) for decades because of the young Trump justices.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 26, 2022

Update on the bad Supreme Court decision on the praying coach

So the praying coach lied about being fired, and now that the Court has ordered the school reinstate him, he's too busy being a conservative celebrity to return to his job. Everything about this case has been rife with the most unChristian duplicity. https://t.co/MGcGVwdw8s
— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) September 17, 2022

In case you were wondering where Judge Cannon got the idea that it's totally ok to not be faithful to the factual record in reaching a preordained ruling….. https://t.co/UJtUJGXaJc
— Andrew Weissmann 🌻 (@AWeissmann_) September 17, 2022

This case might be the best example of how the conservative majority on the Court just doesn’t give a shit about anything that looks like reality. https://t.co/VGEH79VAMN
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) September 17, 2022

The respectable conservative legal types told me this was a real example of religious liberty under attack. They said former SG Paul Clement would never misrepresent facts. They said the Court’s opinion was well-considered.

None of these seems to be true. https://t.co/RbwWdgAb9y
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) September 17, 2022

More on why it is appropriate — indeed, necessary — to question the integrity of the Republican justices here.https://t.co/2ps64XAFwd
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) September 28, 2022

Justice Kagan on the credibility of the Supreme Court

It’s not just the terrible decisions made by the extreme right majority, it’s how the Trump justices got there.

The credibility of the Supreme Court (R) has also been undermined by how the Trump justices were appointed. That’s mostly McConnell’s fault.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 14, 2022

McConnell is still ahead. Gorsuch could serve for 30 years. The impact of overturning Roe will be felt mostly in 2022.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 15, 2022

Man, Chief Justice Roberts’s suggestion that there’s no difference between Trump judges and real judges sure looks like crap right now.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) September 15, 2022

Public approval of the Supreme Court sinks after their terrible abortion ruling

Supreme Court ratings plummet after abortion decision. (@Dchinni @chucktodd @MeetThePress) Details: https://t.co/xOnkns5p1n pic.twitter.com/Lb7JO2zxbY
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) August 28, 2022

The Supreme Court’s favorable rating has sunk to 35% 👍 versus 42% 👎 among registered voters in the new @NBCNews poll after abortion ruling.

It’s the first time in the history of this poll going back to 1992 that the court’s image has been net negative.https://t.co/jL7XdphdWh
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 26, 2022

Do you approve or disapprove of the job the Supreme Court of the United States is doing?

Approve 41%
Disapprove 55%

(Fox News Poll, RV, 8/6-9/22)
trend: https://t.co/wOtlkkLIG2
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) August 14, 2022

Americans' approval of the Supreme Court has fallen again, new poll shows https://t.co/IXArRSX6Si
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 20, 2022

The Supreme Court shadow docket

Need more reason to be concerned about the Supreme Court? Consider the shadow docket. Answers here. https://t.co/Vh1POcU3rt
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) July 19, 2022

In this busy redistricting year, five states sent their newly enacted maps to SCOTUS’ shadow docket.👇
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) July 18, 2022

In contrast to the lengthy merits docket process, emergency requests go through what’s been nicknamed as the Court’s “shadow docket.” These cases are typically decided in just a few days by unsigned and unexplained orders. On the shadow docket this past term:
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) July 18, 2022

Learn more about these shadow docket decisions below. And keep an eye out as the Alabama and North Carolina redistricting cases were selected by the Court for full review next term. https://t.co/lXnRZpa77r
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) July 18, 2022

Today in Shadow Docket Hell, the Supreme Court is considering whether a Trump judge could seize command and control of ICE from the Biden administration.https://t.co/lmiBXWhKRf
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) July 12, 2022

Influences on right-wing Supreme Court justices must be investigated

Congress or DOJ must look into this. The Supreme Court is destroying its own reputation.

It's not the sort of thing institutionally-minded Ds in the WH or Congressional leadership might be inclined to do, but I'm guessing that this, following the @RollingStone revelations, will increase calls for Congress to learn more about the Court majority's behavior. https://t.co/SSs7aD6XPJ
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 8, 2022

This is incredible. @RollingStone has hot mic audio of a right-wing evangelical activist bragging about praying with Supreme Court justices.

The majority cited the organization (whom they prayed with) when they struck down Roe https://t.co/MsDHwEbTH7 pic.twitter.com/WqbCezzk2R
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) July 6, 2022

Look how their favorability is falling. This will make it fall more.

NEW POLL: Supreme Court’s standing remains in freefall, now at minus-24 favorability among independents.

Expanding the Supreme Court is at +7 among all voters, with nearly 70 percent of Democrats supporting the proposal.https://t.co/gUpqnxFt9O
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) July 8, 2022

Historians think the Dobbs vs. Jackson ruling is flawed

A joint statement from this country's professional historians: it is “imperative that historical evidence and argument be presented according to high standards of historical scholarship. The Court’s majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson does not meet those standards” https://t.co/EXOL7hF6rT
— Timothy Stewart-Winter (@timothysw) July 6, 2022

More on the Supreme Court’s bad EPA ruling (7/2/22)

It’s bad for the environment

It’s bad for the government’s ability to function (which was the right-wing extremists’ intention)

Background on the Supreme Court's climate change decision — and one particularly telling quote from John Roberts. https://t.co/pgQiHoqfW2
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 30, 2022

The issue isn't just that the *current* Congress is subject to the filibuster-induced deadlock; it's that *no* Congress will ever have the *capacity* to regulate across every issue with the specificity that "major questions" requires. It's not pro-democracy; it's anti-regulation.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 30, 2022

Yes, it cd’ve been worse for EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, but it was as bad as I feared for administrative agencies as institutions for protecting environmental values, consumers, and workers — ie, for the ability of government to help.https://t.co/hgmpbttgMR
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 2, 2022

The 6-3 SCOTUS ruling means that Congress, rather than the EPA and its staff of scientific experts, will handle the critical task of curbing greenhouse gas emissions. https://t.co/5WhCeczEfz
— The Intercept (@theintercept) July 2, 2022

The Court ruling against the EPA on climate change regulations is a radical departure from long-established understandings of the government’s role. https://t.co/L6TOwVhyeO
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) July 2, 2022

More on the terrible Independent State Legislature theory

.@BeschlossDC on SCOTUS deciding to take up the case on state authority over elections: “There’s a possibility that we may have seen our last fair and free presidential election.” pic.twitter.com/1ukn0q5JK0
— Lauren Peikoff (@laurenpeikoff) July 2, 2022

Yes. The independent state legislature theory doesn’t really have much to do with this. Doesn’t mean it wouldn’t blow a huge hole in checks and balances, though! https://t.co/R8AzpiiKZs
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) July 2, 2022

The justices will consider “independent legislature theory,” which some legal theorists describe as a literal reading of the Constitution.

Voting rights advocates fear it could let state lawmakers twist election laws to favor one party. https://t.co/nZ9JsEOGiF
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 2, 2022

With SCOTUS taking up the independent state legislature doctrine, this raises the obvious question:
What do you do when the Supreme Court gives up on political equality?
You change the rules to stop relying on the courts.
w/ @aziz_huq in @DemJournal https://t.co/9jn2UE6gBA pic.twitter.com/5TwwzjG1Kt
— Lee Drutman ⚙️🏛 (@leedrutman) July 1, 2022

Keep an eye on Moore v. Harper–a coming Supreme Court case that could have huge implications for elections and our democracy: https://t.co/AGo5C4HxOt
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) July 1, 2022

A MUST READ: Step #17 of the thread is legally wrong, but that gives me no assurance that the radical antidemocratic wing of the #TrumpPacked SCOTUS won’t buy it hook, line, and sinker. And then we’d be totally fucxxd. Only mass public mobilization NOW can stave off this disaster https://t.co/m85q6praRo
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 2, 2022