Trust in U.S. Supreme Court Continues to Sink

Thursday, October 03, 2024

Driven by political partisanship, public trust in the U.S. Supreme Court has continued a downward slide since the court's 2022 Dobbs decision overturning the Roe v. Wade ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion, according to a new survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania. More than half of Americans (56%) now disapprove of the Supreme Court, saying they trust it either "a little" or "not at all" to act in the best interest of "people like you," according to the nationally representative panel survey conducted in July and August 2024.

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I don't know why anyone wouldn't trust SCOTUS, considering:

A. John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were all appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote.
B. Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh both had credible allegations of sexual harassment (and/or assault) which were overcome by partisan blind-eye-turning.
C. At least 3 SCOTUS Justices lied outright in their interviews before Congress, and two more gave misleading answers.
D. They granted presidential immunity to FDT to protect him from prosecution for his many crimes.
E. Most of their recent rulings ignore precedent and are unfathomable in terms of making any legal sense whatsoever.
F. At least 2 SCOTUS Justices are working with their wives in a hyper partisan manner.
G. At least 2 SCOTUS Justices have accepted bribes and ruled favorably in cases where they should have recused themselves.

So yeah, the Court is illegitimate, and everyone knows it. We have to pretend to accept those hacks because without the rule of law, the whole system breaks down. Unfortunately, the highest court is a corrupt laughing stock.

#1 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-10-03 12:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.

Ginni Thomas needs to be investigated. How on earth did she get away with meddling in her husband's official judicial affairs and what gave her the right to try to collude with Mark Meadows to try and overthrow and undermine the outcome an free and fair election?

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should immediately recuse himself from any cases relating to the 2020 election and its aftermath. Period.

Until that time I will assume any cases involving Trumpy that are brought before Thomas will have a corrupt intent and outcome.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-10-03 02:00 PM | Reply

I wonder how Democrats will feel about expanding the court if Trump is elected.... Hmmm?

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-03 04:05 PM | Reply

I wonder how Democrats will feel about expanding the court if Trump is elected.... Hmmm?

#3 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Why would Trumpy expand the court? He already has them in his pocket. That would just mean he would have to bribe more of them.

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-10-03 04:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Why would Trumpy expand the court? He already has them in his pocket. That would just mean he would have to bribe more of them.

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-10-03 04:11 PM | Reply | Flag

So you would be indifferent if Trump expanded the court?

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-03 05:43 PM | Reply

You might say my trust in the Supreme Corrupt Court has "settled" down to the depths, to the muck and the mud.

#6 | Posted by Hughmass at 2024-10-04 07:11 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

The corrupt court deserves has destroyed any trust they had....

MILLIONS in bribes taken

Perjury under oath.

Why do they deserve any trust?

#7 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-04 09:20 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

In reference: #7 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-04 09:20 AM

This. All of this

#8 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-04 09:22 AM | Reply

"We have to pretend to accept those hacks because without the rule of law, the whole system breaks down. Unfortunately, the highest court is a corrupt laughing stock."

I do understand your point but with th crimes committed by Trump and the Republicans in their attempts to stal the 2020 election (now fact not opinion) and with blatant corruption of the Supreme Court iy becomes doubtful that our nation is under the rule of law any more. I suspect that a day is approaching when something pretty extreme is going be needed to return us to the rule of law; IMHO it's going to be plong rison terms for election tampering and impeachment of many mrmbers of the Supreme Court. I think we better get busy doing it before the Fascists take over entirely.

#9 | Posted by danni at 2024-10-04 09:46 AM | Reply

DANNI,

We've had opportunities, for the majority of my lifetime, to stave off the rise of religious theocracy/fascism. It's a long list, but there are some key moments in our history that stand out: Iran/Contra, The Fairness Doctrine/advent of Fox "news," the invasion of Iraq, torture/rendition, the Subprime financial meltdown...all of it led up to where we are now. Putin has his fingerprints all over the Repubican Party, too.

We need to do more than get busy, unfortunately. We need to never take our foot off the gas and we can never stop fighting fascism, it's not going to disappear after this election. The thing that worries me the most is that we have to figure out how to deprogram 35% of the country...

#10 | Posted by chuffy at 2024-10-05 01:08 PM | Reply