The Supreme Court has had the same nine members since 2010. And Americans still can’t decide whether those nine justices are too conservative or too liberal.
A new Gallup poll shows views of the court remain relatively steady — at least overall — with 47 percent of Americans approving of the justices and 46 percent disapproving. Those numbers have changed little over the last few years.
But while the American public writ large remains about evenly split, partisan views of the court have swung wildly — in large part based on whether the most recent major decisions were seen as conservative or liberal.
Just two years ago, after the court upheld the individual mandate portion of Obamacare, Democratic support for the court spiked to 68 percent — near a decade -high. Today, after the Supreme Court ruled that religious employers should be exempt from providing birth control to their employees and continuing rolling back campaign finance rules in McCutcheon v. FEC, the 44 percent of Democrats who endorse the court’s work is near a new low.
Similarly, GOP support for the court plunged to 29 percent after the Affordable Care Act decision in 2012 — a new low for the 21st Century. Today, it has spiked to 51 percent — higher than Democrats’.
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