The U.S. Supreme Court’s public approval rating fell to just under 50% from 58% last year, according to a Gallup Poll released Wednesday. Support was down among Democrats, Independents, and Republicans (article available here).
Americans' approval of the nation's highest court dipped to its lowest point in four years.
The poll, conducted July 6-21, showed that Republicans and Democrats gave the conservative-majority court the same approval rating of 51%, compared with 46% of independents. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Those numbers looked a lot different in 2015, after the court legalized same-sex marriage and upheld Obamacare. That year, 76% of Democrats and only 18% of Republicans approved.
The Gallup Poll suggests that it is Republicans, not Democrats, who have become less enamored with the court's work over the past three years.