A poll released on the 15th found that only one in five Americans think the Supreme Court is neutral.
According to the poll conducted by Reuters and polling agency Ipsos on 1,136 American adults from the 10th to the 12th, only 20% of respondents agreed that the Supreme Court is politically neutral.58% did not agree that the Supreme Court is politically neutral, and the rest said they did not know or did not answer.
Regardless of political affiliation, the response that the Supreme Court is not neutral was high. Only 10% of Democrats agreed that the Supreme Court is neutral, while 74% disagreed.
Among Republicans, 29% said the Supreme Court is neutral, while 54% said it was not.
Among Republicans, 67% responded positively, while only 26% of Democrats had the same view.
The favourable opinion rate decreased after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which recognized abortion rights, in June 2022, Reuters analysed.
According to a Reuters-Ipsos poll conducted in late 2021, 57% of Americans had a favourable view of the Supreme Court, but in a poll conducted in June 2022, immediately after Roe v. Wade was overturned, that rate had dropped to 43%. The survey found that 24% of Americans supported the policy of revoking birthright citizenship while 52% opposed it. Among Democrats, only 5% supported the policy while 84% opposed it. However, among Republicans, 43% supported it while 24% opposed it, showing a higher percentage of support for the policy.
On the day of his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order limiting existing birthright citizenship. Since then, a series of constitutional lawsuits have been filed, and after some federal district courts blocked it, the Supreme Court is currently reviewing the validity of these lower court actions. In addition, the survey found that 53% of respondents supported a bill that would block federal assistance for transgender minors to transition.28% opposed the bill.
The Supreme Court previously reviewed a Tennessee law banning hormone therapy and puberty prevention drugs for transgender youth.
Currently, the U.S. Supreme Court has many conservative justices, with six of the nine justices.