Supreme Court
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Americans' confidence in the police has increased eight points since last year, but average confidence across 14 U.S. institutions remains historically low.
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Pro-choice voters are showing record-high intensity on the abortion issue, and the pro-choice segment of the public remains historically large.
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Americans' approval of the Supreme Court and their trust in it remain low. The public is divided on whether its ideology is "about right" or "too conservative."
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Forty percent of Americans approve of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing, unchanged from the record low measured last fall.
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Gallup finds public faith in many societal institutions holding steady at or near their record lows. Majorities view small business and the military positively.
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Americans' trust in the judicial branch has sunk further in the past year, and the Supreme Court's job approval rating is tied for the low in Gallup's trend.
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In the wake of key decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court, the public's approval of its job remains little changed overall but with record-high division among partisans.
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Confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court is down 11 percentage points this year, falling to a new low of 25%.
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Newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the second Protestant on the court, along with one Jewish justice and six Catholics.
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Fifty-eight percent of Americans want the Senate to confirm judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, tied for the highest initial support for a nominee in Gallup's trends.
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Of 11 prominent federal government officials, Chief Justice John Roberts is the best rated by Americans and the only one with the approval of all party groups.
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Forty percent of Americans approve of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing, down nine points since July and a new low approval rating in Gallup's trend.
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Approval of the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to 49% after reaching a 10-year high of 58% a year ago.
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A slim majority of Americans support Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, and 46% oppose it.
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A plurality of Americans (42%) say the ideological makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court is "about right," while about one in three (32%) say the high court is "too conservative" and 23% say it is "too liberal."