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It looks like our government, as a whole, has lost the confidence of the people.
http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2014/06/30/supreme-court-confidence-gallup-poll/
On the same day the justices ruled on a controversial case dealing with Obamas contraception policy, a new Gallup Poll finds only 30% of Americans have confidence in the Supreme Court a record low for the judicial branch. The findings also represent a 7-point drop for the Supreme Court since 2012.
The court ruled 5-4 on Monday that closely held companies cannot be forced to offer insurance coverage for contraception methods that they equate with abortion. The courts decision in whats known as the Hobby Lobby case is a blow to Obamas Affordable Care Act, which included the so-called contraception mandate.
In the Gallup Poll, confidence in Congress reached a record-low 7% while faith in Obama hit 29% a six-year low for the presidency.
But confidence in the Supreme Court has slipped steadily since its heydey during the Reagan administration, when 56% of Americans said they believed in the high court in 1985 and 1988. The ratings for the court mostly stayed in the 40s and 50s but took a sharp turn down to 34% in 2007 a year after George W. Bush won Senate confirmation for Samuel Alito to the court.
samsingh
(17,595 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)your number was way too high.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Petrigu was a former congressman from SC who opposed the Confederacy and secession.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I mean really... they do what they want anyway.
fuck the people, they don't give a shit no matter what the people say and know they can get away with it.
Democracy? ....... people's opinion? .....yeah
right.
TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)5% would seem more realistic.
I guess it is buoyed by the hard right and perhaps by the dumdums that think Kennedy and/or Roberts are moderate.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Only worse.