As recently as July 2021, a majority of Democrats still had a favorable opinion of the Supreme Court. That all changed, of course, after the court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision which finally overturned Roe v. Wade. By July 2022, the Democratic Party’s favorable opinion of the Supreme Court had fallen to 13%, and it has only risen slightly since then to 15%.

Now, after a term in which President Donald Trump’s conspiracy charges were tossed on grounds of presidential immunity and federal agency power was limited with the end of the Chevron deference, Democrats want to energize their base by demonizing federal courts and taking away their power.