Republicans and independents have warmed on Supreme Court since 2022 abortion ruling: AP-NORC poll

By MARK SHERMAN and AMELIA THOMSON-DEVEAUX Associated Press WASHINGTON AP Americans views of the Supreme Court have moderated somewhat since the court s standing dropped sharply after its ruling overturning Roe v Wade in according to a new poll But concern that the court has too much power is rising fueled largely by Democrats The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Society Affairs Research exposed that about a third of U S adults have hardly any confidence at all in the court but that s down from three years ago As the new AP-NORC polling tracker shows about half of Americans have only particular confidence in the court up from in July while a relatively small number about in have a great deal of confidence which hasn t shifted meaningfully in the past sparse years The moderate increase in confidence is driven by Republicans and independents Still views of the nation s highest court remain more negative than they were as in the past few days as early before the high-profile ruling that overturned the constitutional right to abortion An AP-NORC poll conducted in February discovered that only around one-quarter of Americans had hardly any confidence in the court s justices Persistent divide between Republicans and Democrats The partisan divide has been persistent and stark particularly since the Dobbs ruling when Democrats confidence in the nine justices plummeted The survey shows Republicans are happier than Democrats and independents with the conservative-dominated court which includes three justices appointed by President Donald Trump a Republican Related Articles Trump s trip to Scotland as his new golf lesson opens blurs politics and the family s business Disgraced former US Rep George Santos to begin serving his -year fraud sentence Howie Carr Boston judge the rubber stamp Dems and Harvard covet The White House wants more states to redraw House maps to help GOP Democrats are readying a fight Trump administration sues New York City over sanctuary city policies Limited Republicans just view the court dimly down from about in in July For independents the decline was from just after the Dobbs ruling to about in now The views among Democrats were more static but they are also slightly less likely to have low confidence in the justices falling from in summer to now In latest years the court has produced historic victories for Republican initiative priorities The justices overturned Roe leading to abortion bans in multiple Republican-led states ended affirmative action in college admissions expanded gun rights restricted environmental regulations and embraced contends of religious discrimination A great number of of the court s major decisions from this year are broadly popular according to a Marquette Law School poll conducted in July But other polling suggests that preponderance don t think the justices are ruling neutrally A latest Fox News poll discovered that about in registered voters think partisanship plays a role in the justices decisions either frequently or sometimes Last year the conservative majority endorsed a robust view of presidential immunity and allowed Trump to avoid a criminal trial on referendum interference charges In latest months the justices on the right handed Trump a string of victories including a ruling that limits federal judges power to issue nationwide injunctions Katharine Stetson a self-described constitutional conservative from Paradise Nevada stated she is glad that the court has reined in the rogue judges the district judges around the country who have blocked several Trump initiatives Stetson stated she is only disappointed it took so long Absolutely Why did they allow it get out of hand she commented Growing concerns the court is too powerful Several new decisions were accompanied by stinging dissents from liberal justices who complained the court was giving Trump too much leeway and taking power for itself Perhaps the degradation of our rule-of-law regime would happen anyway But this court s complicity in the creation of a heritage of disdain for lower courts their rulings and the law as they interpret it will surely hasten the downfall of our governing institutions enabling our collective demise Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote when the court ruled on nationwide injunctions The July AP-NORC poll identified a growing similar sentiment About in U S adults now say the court has too much power in the way the federal executive operates these days In April about in people were concerned about the court s power The shift is largely due to movement among Democrats rising from about one-third in April to more than half now Debra A Harris a -year-old retired state leadership worker who now lives in Winter Haven Florida announced the court s decisions in up-to-date years just disgust me to my soul Harris announced the court has changed in fresh years with the addition of the three justices appointed by Trump I find so much of what they re doing is based so much on the ideology of the Republican ticket Harris declared singling out last year s immunity decision We don t have kings We don t have dictators George Millsaps who flew military helicopters and served in Iraq explained the justices should have stood up to Trump in latest months including on immigration reducing the size of the federal workforce and unwinding the Training Department But they re bowing down just like Congress apparently is now too revealed Millsaps a -year-old resident of Floyd County in rural southwest Virginia The AP-NORC poll of adults was conducted July - using a sample drawn from NORC s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel which is designed to be representative of the U S population The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus percentage points