Jun 27, 2022 23:00:00

Confidence in the US Supreme Court sinks into historically low

On June 24, 2022 local time, the US Supreme Court ruled to overturn the '

Roe v. Wade' ruling that unconstitutionally invalidates the law governing women's abortions. In response to this, while various opinions erupted at home and abroad, it is reported that 'trust in the US Supreme Court has sunk to a historically low level.'

Confidence in US Supreme Court Sinks to Historic Low
https://news.gallup.com/poll/394103/confidence-supreme-court-sinks-historic-low.aspx

The 'American Supreme Court Confidence Survey' conducted by the marketing research company GALLUP every year is 'highly credible', 'quite credible', and 'somewhat confident' in the credibility of the Supreme Court. You will be asked to answer in four stages: 'I have' and 'I hardly trust you.' The graph below shows the percentage of respondents who answered 'I trust very much' or 'I trust quite a lot', and in 2022, the lowest number '25%' since the survey started in 1973. I knocked it out. The lowest value before 2022 was '30%' recorded in 2014, and the highest value was '56%' recorded in 1998.

GALLUP's Confidence Survey on the US Supreme Court was conducted from June 1st to 20th, 2022. That is, an investigation conducted before the Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision. In 2021, the percentage of respondents who answered 'highly trust' or 'quite trust' was '36%', which means that the confidence of the Supreme Court dropped by 11 points in one year. .. GALLUP is also conducting a reliability survey on other institutions in the United States, but it seems that the decrease in reliability recorded by the Supreme Court, which is '11 points down from the previous year', is about twice that of other institutions. GALLUP plans to release survey data on the reliability of other institutions to institutional investors in early July 2022.

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision, but in a poll conducted by GALLUP on May 3-18, 2021 before this decision was made, 'Overturning the Roe v. Wade decision. The percentage of those who agreed with '32%' was '32%', and the percentage of those who disagreed with it was '58%'. This result is almost consistent since 1989, when the survey asked 'Are you for or against overturning the Roe v. Wade decision?'

Also, according to GALLUP, the decline in confidence in the Supreme Court has

occurred since the Supreme Court ruled in September 2021 that the Supreme Court would not suspend a law prohibiting abortion. Therefore, it is unclear whether the record unreliability of the 2022 investigation was related to the June 24 ruling, GALLUP notes.

The following is a classification of the credibility of judges in the Supreme Court by supporting political party. The confidence of democratic judges is '13%' and the confidence of independent judges is '25%', but the confidence of Republican judges is '39%'. It has increased by 2 points from the previous year.

Summarizing GALLUP's investigations so far, confidence in Democratic judges is the lowest ever. On the other hand, confidence in Republican judges is high compared to recent figures.