Majority of voters no longer trust Supreme Court.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2024/0424/supreme-court-trust-trump-immunity-overturning-roe
Majority of voters no longer trust Supreme Court.
https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2024/0424/supreme-court-trust-trump-immunity-overturning-roe
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Been that way for a bit now…
The powerful don’t want trust, they want power.
They clearly do not care as evidence of alitos arrogance. Thomas can’t be bothered to recuse himself.
The SCOTUS is a fucking National embarrassment.
I would have thought they lost most trust since Bush v. Gore.
Other than the occasional cantankery from Scalia, I don’t recall anyone ever even noticing SCOTUS until around the time Clarence was up for a seat. However accurate that is I don’t know, and I admit that although I’ve been politically-conscious for about 40 years now I haven’t really given a handful of shit about them until Rehnquist put on the stripey robe, but it seems to me that after Roberts took over the court has been a bit on the Legislative side rather than Judicial.
Whatever the case, when I was coming up it was almost apocalyptic to read anything about SCOTUS, as if it were some legendary beast that stirred and coughed in its sleep here and there.
Now it’s a fuckin weekly show on prime time, all drama and cliffhanger, and I wish they’d go back to having some semblance of gravitas instead of being clout-chasers.
If they give Trump immunity and make him “above the law” they effectively make themselves irrelevant.
Translation: Supreme Court has fucked the majority of voters.
What exactly have they done in the past 20 years to give us faith that they are above party politics? The occasional ruling where they all agree on an issue doesn’t outweigh the shady shit that goes on between top GOP donors and the justices.
Well, it’s not undeserved, let’s just put it at that.
Garbage court. Garbage
The Corrupt Robert’s Court is corrupt. That is the Corrupt Robert’s Court’s historical legacy.
Who in their right mind would trust them?
They are laying the groundwork for a dictator or king.
One of my Constitutional Law professors analogized trust in the Supreme Court to that scene in the 1978 Superman movie where Lois Lane falls off a building, Superman catches her, and says “I got you.” Lois Lane looks around, realizes they’re flying and says “but who’s got you?!”
The courts are supposed to have us and safeguard our rights – they tell us “I’ve got you.” But sometimes we realize that no one’s holding Superman up and it’s an illusion.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Fixable problem. We need more seats in the house of reps and more judges on the supreme court. America has lost the part where the government reflects the will of the people.
>“More big cases does not mean people are going to distrust the court,” [University of California law professor Aaron Tang] adds. But “in recent years the Supreme Court has been deciding big cases in ways that leave the losers with no other real options for protecting their interests.”
This is really it in a nutshell.
You need an abortion? Tough luck, shouldn’t have had an ectopic pregnancy. Kids getting shot dead in their classrooms? It’s illegal to protect them. You’re homeless? Sorry, flee the city or go to jail.
These supreme court decisions aren’t just “you win some, you lose some.” The people losing these cases are losing their *lives*. The conservative justices keep saying, “I’ve crunched the numbers and what’s fair is *you die.*”
Duh?
Four of them were appointed by Presidents who lost the popular vote (six if you include the two Bush appointed in his second term, which he may not have gotten if he had lost in 2000).
Two of them were appointed because of shit GOP Senators pulled to prevent Obama from appointing one.
Three of them acknowledged that Roe was precedent (with caveats). Then subsequently overturned it.
One of them has serious questions as to his impartiality on practically any highly political case. That same one was quoted as saying “And I’m going to make their [Liberals] lives miserable for 43 years.”
The Supreme Court is Bullshit. What’s worse, they all know it.
It’s interesting whenever somebody says that Roberts supposedly worries about the perceived legitimacy of the court, when you could say that ship sailed a long time ago, lol.
When the SC turned into political extremists in robes, of course a majority of voters don’t trust UNELECTED judges.
Senators were once unelected by appointment only. Due to extreme CORRUPTION in the late 1800s ,we the people now have a say in directly electing our Senators. We need to do the same to the Supreme Court. Unlikely that’ll happen since it will require a constitutional amendment and three-quarter of the States couldn’t even agree the sky is blue.
Again as a voting person..I’m a shamed of all of this….WE allowed this to happen…..just saying
How can you trust them if one of the SC judge’s wife is an insurrectionist?
Biden can exercise absolute immunity by executing them to install honest judges if he follows the logic of Trump that president should have absolute immunity.
That’s because SCOTUS is a fucking joke.
I used to listen to and read Supreme Court arguments on an issue and be enthralled by the intricate workings of their minds. Now? I can’t respect Thomas. The Trump appointees are there to protect Trump. The outnumbered Liberal Justices are aghast at the arguments made before the Court and the decisions handed down.
Clarence Thomas is irredeemably corrupt. The Roberts-Trump cabal are so far beyond the pale, and they have invented new high crimes for which there are no legal defenses against.
There has never been an end to these types of emergencies. As Dorcas muses to Severian in The Shadow of the Torturer, there is a fixed amount of good and evil here on Urth, and all we can do is tilt the sphere and adjust how much of each flows into our minds and how much into ‘this.’
By taking bribes and overturning 50 year old precedents, they’ve brought this on themselves.
I want Biden to nuke the Supreme Court in his second term and expand it to 13 justices. One SC Justice per Circuit Court. The Federal court system moves at a snail’s pace and it’s no longer tenable for a single SC Justice to have responsibilities over multiple circuits.
Clarence Thomas – sell out, national disgrace, permanent sad face.
Blue states should ignore them. Done with the fascist BS.
The Supreme Court is broken. It doesn’t work for the people of this country. It’s a corrupt bunch of republicans. I’ll never respect the stolen court again.
This is the most transparently corrupt group of individuals with a level of power that is simply dangerous. When trust is lost in that body – your “late stage______whatever” is well on its way downward. ( democracy, capitalism, patriotism, religion, you choose) and then the people must decide how it is corrected.
Don’t know how but this needs to be fixed or we cease to be who we claim to be. We need to be able to trust in our 3 independent branches of government.
Fuck trust. They’re illegitimate, it needs to be dissolved and rebuilt from the ground up. We’ve got multiple sitting members that are liars, abusers, unqualified, and seditionists. Burn it down.
The notion they didn’t immediately bat down Trump’s claim to Divinity is all that needs to be said.
I wasn’t surveyed! I want to add my vote!
Majority (+1) of voters no longer trust the Supreme Court!
Good lord, why would you? They continue to set new highs in low standards.
The current Supreme Court is openly, nakedly corrupt. All Americans should understand this.
Because a majority of voters can see the blatant, unremorseful corruption of the SCOTUS. It goes hand in hand with blatant corruption of everything right wing right now.