The Supreme Court has something else to worry about besides its caseload as it begins its fall session Monday: how the public views it.
Roughly 50 percent of Americans say they disapprove of the Supreme Court, according to a new Gallup poll. That’s the highest share of disapproval since Gallup began tracking sentiment toward the court 15 years ago. Forty-five percent say the approve of the highest court in the land, while 5 percent have no opinion.
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The difference remains partisan, even though it changed somewhat since the last poll conducted in July. Democrats’ favorable view of the Supreme Court dropped from 76 percent to 67 percent. Republicans, whose approval of the court was at a record low in July at 18 percent, rose to 26 percent in the latest poll.
Capital punishment, affirmative actions and redistricting are expected to be some of the cases taken up in the fall session when the Supreme Court returns on Monday. The telephone-based poll of roughly 1,000 American adults was conducted Sept. 9-13 with an overall margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.