Have American Politics Killed the Impartial Supreme Court?
Examining some of the poll data for the court
The United States judicial system, like its fellow federal branches of government, hasn’t fared very well in the public eye lately. New data from Democracy Corps, a Democratic-aligned polling consortium, shows that the public thinks the court is a political creature. And the public does not care much for political creatures in 2014.
A recent Pew Research Center poll shows that the public regard for the court has been lower than usual lately (although it’s made a slight recovery from the historic lows it hit the last time Pew polled on this subject).
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