Americans are now more displeased with the U.S. Supreme Court than they have been in the past 26 years, according to a new poll.
Republicans are growing more dissatisfied with the court as its recent rulings buck President Trump, and Democrats remain sour on the high court’s conservative majority that overturned liberal precedents such as Roe v. Wade.
Approval of the high court has fallen to a record low of 33%, as GOP support dipped to 58% from a near-record high 79% in September, according to a new Gallup poll.
The decline can be attributed to unfavorable rulings that handed major setbacks to Mr. Trump. These include striking down executive orders ending automatic birthright citizenship and barring states from counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day.
The justices also invalidated Mr. Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs and his attempt to remove Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook immediately.
Republicans’ rating of the Supreme Court has mostly surpassed 60% since 2017, when Mr. Trump’s three appointments established a solid 6-to-3 conservative majority and significantly shifted the ideological balance of the court.
But Mr. Trump turned his rhetoric against the Supreme Court when decisions did not go his way. Still, the high court ruled in his favor more often than not. Trackers put the Trump administration’s Supreme Court win rate at 75% to 83%.
Favorable rulings include expanded presidential removal power over independent agency officials and upholding state restrictions on transgender athletes in women’s sports.
Approval ratings among Democrats and independents are essentially unchanged from September — 12% and 35%, respectively — which are near historic lows.
The Supreme Court’s overall decline in approval comes with a record-high disapproval rating of 61%.
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