![]() In the current survey, a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents – regardless of their ideology – say that the court is middle of the road. Smaller shares now say the court is either middle of the road or liberal. Today, 18% say it is conservative, compared with 12% in 2020. Today, a majority of Democrats (57%) say the court is conservative – a 10-point shift.Īmong Republicans, there has been a 6-point shift. In 2020, 47% of Democrats and Democratic leaners said the court was conservative, with an identical share saying it was middle of the road. Today, 38% of adults say the court is conservative – an 8-point increase.ĭemocrats’ perceptions of the court’s ideology have also shifted considerably. In August 2020 – prior to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and the subsequent appointment of Amy Coney Barrett – three-in-ten adults said the court was ideologically conservative. The public is now seeing a more ideologically conservative court than it did two years ago. Today, that has declined 19 percentage points, and Democrats are now more likely to have an unfavorable (53%) than a favorable (46%) view of the court. In early 2021, roughly two-thirds (65%) said they had a favorable opinion of the court. Over the past year, there has been a sharp decline in the share of Democrats and Democratic leaners who hold favorable views of the Supreme Court. Narrow majority of Democrats now view Supreme Court unfavorably However, both Republicans and Democrats are much more likely to say justices nominated by presidents of their own party achieve this than do justices nominated by presidents from the other party. Among the overwhelming majority of adults (84%) who say Supreme Court justices should not bring their own political views into the cases they decide, just 16% say they do an excellent or good job in keeping their views out of their decisions. Nearly six-in-ten (58%) say the court has the right amount of power, but that has slipped since 2020 (from 65%) as more Americans – Democrats, in particular – say it has too much power.īroad skepticism that justices are not influenced by politics. Majority says Supreme Court has the right amount of power. A majority of Democrats (57%) say the court is conservative, compared with 18% of Republicans. Still, more say the court is “middle of the road” (48%), while 9% say it is liberal. The share of adults saying the Supreme Court is conservative has increased since 2020, from 30% to 38%. Favorable views among Republicans have also dipped over the past few years, though are largely unchanged since 2021: Roughly two-thirds continue to hold positive opinions of the court.Īmong the other findings from the new survey:Ĭhanging views of the court’s ideology. Today, that number has fallen to 46% among liberal Democrats and Democratic leaners, just 36% view the court positively, down from 57%. Last year, about two-thirds of Democrats said they had a favorable view of the court. The recent decline in favorability is due in large part to a sharp drop-off among Democrats. Looking back further, current views of the court are among the least positive in surveys dating back nearly four decades. 10-17 among 5,128 adults on the Center’s American Trends Panel. Over the past three years, the share of adults with a favorable view of the court has declined 15 percentage points, according to the new survey, conducted Jan. The survey was conducted before Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement from the court and President Joe Biden reiterated his pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court to replace Breyer. adults say they have a favorable opinion of the Supreme Court while 44% have an unfavorable view. In a national survey by Pew Research Center, 54% of U.S. The court enters this pivotal period with its public image as negative as it has been in many years, as Democrats – especially liberal Democrats – increasingly express unfavorable opinions of the court. Supreme Court, which typically attracts only modest attention from the American public, is about to occupy the national spotlight with the possibility of a history-making change among the court’s justices and a series of highly anticipated rulings on matters ranging from abortion to gun policy. Here are the questions used for the report, along with responses, and its methodology. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,128 U.S. Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand the public’s views on the U.S. ![]()
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