Americans increasingly see Supreme Court as too conservative, poll finds

https://www.semafor.com/article/10/01/2025/americans-increasingly-see-supreme-court-as-too-conservative-poll-finds

44 comments

  1. “Americans increasingly think the sky is blue”

  2. In other news, water is wet.

    The problem is that there’s a large amount of people who are just fine with it.

  3. Instead of tearing down the country that Republicans hate they could have left it as is and started their own self-contained hellscape.

  4. Its not necessarily too conservative, its the blatant disregard for legal precedent, the open corruption, and the dismantling of all established checks and balances to create an authoritarian government. Oh, ya… I guess that is conservatism, my mistake.

  7. I’d love to know if polled American’s UNDERSTAND how the Supreme Court justices are picked. Kamala said it in her debate…”The next president could elect TWO replacement members of the Supreme Court”

    This is what idiots DON’T understand. Young adult IDIOT voters, or NON-VOTERS, you are setting in motion shit that will affect your children’s children’s lives. Your potential grandkids will be living in a world decided by “Trump’s Supreme Court”.

  8. Clearance Thomas recently came out saying, “I can do anything I want, and no one on this planet can stop me”

    Who the fuck votes for that? If this is what Tenure on the supreme Court means it should be removed.

    Edit – https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-clarence-thomas-legal-precedents-gospel/story?id=125967044

    Law isn’t gospel? It’s such an odd thing to say. And he clearly intends to mean he can do whatever he want, and not have to explain himself

  10. I’m so old I can remember when conservatives could at least pretend that judicial activism is bad thing… then came the Roberts court.

  11. It’s the utter hypocrisy of the court that stands out. The absolutely outrageous, very obvious judicial activism (after Republicans/Conservatives saying Judicial Activism was wrong for decades) is what stands out.

    We live in a world, essentially, where nothing matters anymore.

  12. It’s not too conservative, it’s too lawless

  13. Too anti-Constitution for a Supreme Court. Too fond of authoritarian rule where there has never been one before. But mostly, too protective of rapist pedophiles, I’d say.

  14. I think many Americans wouldn’t notice if the Supreme Court wasn’t handing all power to a lawless fascist dictator so quickly. Aren’t conservatives *supposed* to be the “law and order” party?

  15. It’s not too conservative, it’s too corrupt and broken.

  16. I simply see it as another cog in the mafia politics machine that is the GOP.

  19. According to the poll, among Democrats and Independents. Among Republicans, approval of SCOTUS sits at a pretty 79%. Deplorable.

  20. Ftfy: Americans increasingly see supreme court as too regressive, poll finds

  21. The Supreme Court has been controlled by Republicans since 1969.

  23. The problem isn’t so much them being conservative as it is them flagrantly ignoring precedent and irresponsibly abusing their authority as the final arbiters of the Constitution in America.

    The fact that at this point we can’t say for sure if the Court will allow or deny Trump the right to abolish birthright citizenship in 14th Amendment through executive order speaks volumes to how far it’s fallen.

    Shadow docket decisions are the next strike against them.

    At this point a reformation of the Court is obligated because there is no more business as usual going forward.

  24. Nothing “conservative” about destroying the constitution 

  25. Cold take. Opinion Polls are pointless if no one acts on them. The Supreme Court isn’t going to read a poll one day and say guys, we’ve lost touch with the public. We need to start being more liberal in our rulings and what not.

  26. Too anti-constitution and too anti-USA and too corrupt. 

  27. lol, SC be like “hold my beer”.

    By this time next week it will be illegal to call the court conservative.

  28. The court was stolen by Republicans breaking precedent with blocking confirmations and also the confirmation of judges nominated by candidates that lost the popular vote.

    I
    This whole process has been done in such a shady way and they don’t care.

  29. “Americans increasingly see Supreme Court as too ~~conservative~~ corrupt”

    Fixed it

  30. It’s not even political bias that’s the issue. It’s the fact they’ve abandoned their constitutional duty to check the power of the executive branch. Our republic is failing because the system was set up so two branches could keep a rogue third one in check. The Supreme Court refuses to hold the White House back from abuses of power and Congress has abdicated its power of the purse to a man who has more bankrupted companies in his life than normal people have jobs.

  31. I wouldn’t even say conservative anymore just corrupt

  32. I’m in law school and with every page and chapter I have to hold the parallel thought of: “this may not matter anymore.”

  35. I am done with this court. We need an amendment restructuring and redefine the supreme court. This can not and will not continue.

  36. Omg who cares what the polls think? If we are waiting for polls to do something, we will be waiting forever. Idk where this polling obsession comes from, or why people seem to think people are well informed or just organically form opinions.

    I don’t think everyone should be informed on every bit of the gov’t. They shouldn’t need to be. I also don’t care what polls say, the Dems should literally to whatever it takes to pack the courts with the furthest left judges they can find and fuck the polls.

  37. The Hijacked Supreme Court is too conservative. And corrupt.

  38. I look at the number of Democrats and Independents who view it is too conservative then I scratch my head, This article has 86% or Dems and 62% of independents not approving, we can’t seem to get people to make judicial nominees a priority when voting. Rs have done so for 30+ years and we can’t move the needle. Literally 49% of non-R voters disapprove. That would be enough to win elections if we could convert that to voting.

  39. Reactionary and corrupt, more like.

    How can a court that constantly overturns precedent be conservative?

  41. The Supreme Court needs an overhaul, from transparency on who is influencing their decisions to changing how prior precidents can be reversed, it should be not just simple majorities also the shadow docket needs to go away and teh court needs to be expanded and also made back to being apolitical.

  42. We need to stop calling them conservative: They’re regressive: The opposite of progress, and dragging us backwards with every step they take!

  43. Elections have consequences and we have tried warning people for over a decade. Always got shoulder shrugs and an “it won’t happen here” attitude.

  44. Not only is it too conservative, it is *way* out of alignment with America in general.

    The prudent thing to have done while Biden still could was to expand the court to equal the number of Federal districts (which would’ve expanded it by 4 sitting members).

    He could have even milquetoast enlightened centristed the deal by appointing 1 far leftist, 2 leftists, and 1 moderate to bring the court into complete balance and **actually make them reach compromises** rather than judge by fiat (which is undesirable on the left or right).

    … but Biden was the wrong man for the hour where the Justice department was concerned.

    (and with that thought, fuck Merrick Garland)

Comments are closed.