Less than 50% of American’s think approvel of the High Courts collective justices….
The reason?
The Alito 5 conservative crew….
Their decsion on abortion, throwing the rukles back to the states , is VERY unpopular with almost 60% of Americans….
But it gets worst….
Judge Clarence Thomas has said out loud he thinks other ‘Right’s ‘ American’s have taken for granted shouldn’t be….
The idea that the could is above politics is of course Bull Shit….
Then President Trump appointed THREE right leaners to the court during his term….
The judges on the court are real people just like you and me….
They get on the court due to politica and then can and do bend the law to met their personal views….
Well?
They’re back up and will ‘rule’ on more cases that will effect and drive American’s lives soon…
Just 5 people …..
The other 4 don’t seem to matter much….
And the legislative branch could fix this with rewrites…
But they won’t….
People gotta vote in some peopel that WILL get around the Alito 5…..
It CAN be done…..
But proably won’t….
Just media crying….
The last Supreme Court term ended with a series of judicial bombshells in June that eliminated the right to abortion, established a right to carry guns outside the home and limited efforts to address climate change. As the justices return to the bench on Monday, there are few signs that the court’s race to the right is slowing.
The new term will feature major disputes on affirmative action, voting, religion, free speech and gay rights. And the court’s six-justice conservative supermajority seems poised to dominate the new term as it did the earlier one.
“On things that matter most,” said Irv Gornstein, the executive director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown Law, “get ready for a lot of 6-3s.”
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Several of the biggest cases concern race, in settings as varied as education, voting and adoptions.
They include challenges to the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. As in last term’s abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, longstanding precedents are at risk….
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Justice Elena Kagan, part of the court’s three-member liberal wing, spoke frequently over the summer, if in general terms, about ways courts can undermine their own authority.
That could happen, she said in New York in September, when it looks as if judges are “an extension of the political process or when they’re imposing their own personal preferences,” adding that the public has a right to expect “that changes in personnel don’t send the entire legal system up for grabs.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, another liberal, has echoed the point….
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One hundred days after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade and ended the constitutional right to an abortion, public approval of the court has dropped to historic lows as it prepares to open its new term on Monday.
According to a Gallup poll released on Thursday, just 47 percent of Americans said they have at least a “fair amount” of trust in the judicial branch, representing a 20-percentage-point drop from two years ago, including 7 points since last year.
A record number of people now view the court as too conservative. The drop in trust is driven largely by a sharp decline among Democrats, the poll found. Only 25 percent of Democrats, down from 50 percent a year ago, have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the court.
A Marquette University Law School poll from earlier in September found that just 40 percent of adults approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing.
Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs, said the numbers underscore that this is a defining time for the court…
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“The court has no real way to enforce compliance with its decisions beyond the understanding that what it is doing is somehow a legitimate exercise of law as opposed to something else,” said New York University law professor Melissa Murray.
“The public may not accept a decision as legitimate when it seems like the decision is … simply rooted in the personnel of the court,” Murray said. “Like it’s meaningful that Roe was upheld multiple times by earlier courts and now is overruled as soon as there is a six to three conservative supermajority.”
According to Gallup, public approval of the Supreme Court has been slipping steadily since last year, falling from 49 percent in July 2021 to 40 percent last September, just after the court allowed a restrictive Texas abortion law to go into effect. …
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“The thing that builds up reservoirs of public confidence is the court acting like a court and not acting like an extension of the political process,” Kagan said.
Kagan, who dissented sharply with the decision to overturn Roe, said public confidence is eroded when long-standing past decisions are disregarded.