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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Aug 7, 2025, 02:08 PM Aug 7

There's only one type of American who still trusts the Supreme Court

A new Gallup poll finds public approval of the Supreme Court falling below 40 percent for the first time in the poll’s history. The poll aligns with many others, which have shown public support for the Supreme Court collapsing since Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s 2020 confirmation gave Republicans a 6-3 supermajority on the high Court.

One of the Gallup poll’s most significant, if unsurprising, findings is that there is also an unprecedented partisan gap in public approval of the Court. Republicans give the justices high marks, while the Court is slightly more popular than venereal disease among Democrats:

This partisan gap is more or less what any close observer of the justices would predict, given the Court’s recent behavior. Last year, the Republican justices ruled that President Donald Trump has broad immunity from prosecution — so broad, in fact, that the GOP justices even determined that Trump may order the Justice Department to prosecute his perceived enemies “for an improper purpose.

Similarly, since Trump returned to power last January, the Court has blocked more than a dozen lower court decisions that limited Trump’s ability to act unilaterally. Some of these decisions are blockbusters. In June’s Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D., for example, the Republican justices effectively neutralized the Convention Against Torture, which prohibits the United States from deporting immigrants to nations where they may be tortured. In July’s McMahon v. New York, the Republican justices permitted Trump to fire nearly half of the Department of Education’s workers — in what Education Secretary Linda McMahon called “the first step on the road to a total shutdown” of the entire department.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/only-one-type-american-still-090000523.html

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There's only one type of American who still trusts the Supreme Court (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 7 OP
"Only slightly more popular than venereal disease among Democrats". That would be funny if it weren't true. FadedMullet Aug 7 #1

FadedMullet

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1. "Only slightly more popular than venereal disease among Democrats". That would be funny if it weren't true.
Thu Aug 7, 2025, 02:15 PM
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