The recent decisions by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on abortion and guns appear to have pushed Democrats deeper into seeking radical changes that would shift the court back into liberal hands.
While, for many, simply packing the court with more left-wing judges was the answer before the recent decisions, a new survey found support for killing the court, electing judges, and even allowing the United Nations to have the final say.
A new Rasmussen Reports survey sponsored by the Heartland Institute, for example, found that 39% of Democrats would let the U.N. reverse Supreme Court decisions it viewed as human rights violations. The reversal of Roe vs. Wade could fall into that category.
Worse, a majority (53%) of Democrats would support legislation to “abolish” the court and turn it into an elected chamber with judges picked on ballots. Just 21% of Republicans agree with that proposal.
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Most Democratic Voters Want to ‘Abolish’ Supreme Court
Majority of Democratic voters say SCOTUS is fundamentally racist, fundamentally sexist, now favor establishment of a new “democratically elected Court with justices chosen by the American people directly.” https://t.co/9r7pb4oibO
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) July 12, 2022
And 64% of Democrats support packing the court with 13 judges, up from the current nine. Just 19% of Republicans agreed.
Driving the liberal anger, according to the survey, is a feeling among Democrats that the Supreme Court is “racist” and “sexist,” despite having two black people and four women sitting on it, all but Justices Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett being liberals.
In the survey, 56% of Democrats said the court is a “fundamentally racist” institution. And 67% said it is a “fundamentally sexist” institution.
All that said, it is no surprise that Democrats generally don’t like the court. According to Rasmussen’s preview of its survey being released later Tuesday: “In the wake [of] a recent string of decisions strengthening the Second Amendment, reining in the power of the Environmental Protection Agency, and ending the constitutional right to an abortion, however, Democratic voters mostly disapprove of the Supreme Court. Only 33% of Democrats view the court favorably, while 63% have an unfavorable opinion of the court, including 40% of Democrats who have a Very Unfavorable view of the Supreme Court.”
