{"id":15098,"date":"2012-07-13T13:22:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15098"},"modified":"2012-07-13T13:27:18","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T17:27:18","slug":"supreme-court-unfavorability-rises-to-all-time-record-in-another-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15098\/supreme-court-unfavorability-rises-to-all-time-record-in-another-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Unfavorability Rises To All-Time Record in Another Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When one tries too hard to be popular, the result is usually less popularity.\u00a0 That appears no less true when it comes to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, we highlighted how public approval of the Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1486-poll-public-approval-of-supreme-court-plummets\" target=\"_blank\">instantly plummeted<\/a> following last month&#8217;s ObamaCare decision.\u00a0 One week prior to the Court\u2019s decision, twice as many people &#8211; 36% to 17% &#8211; believed that the Court was doing a \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cexcellent\u201d job as opposed to a \u201cpoor\u201d job.\u00a0 In the immediate aftermath of that decision, almost as many said that the Court was doing a &#8220;poor&#8221; job as a \u201cgood\u201d or  \u201cexcellent\u201d job.\u00a0 Additionally, over twice as many Americans &#8211; 56% to 27% &#8211; now believe that the justices pursue political agendas as opposed to maintaining impartiality.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2012-presidential-campaign\/republicans-discontent-with-high-court-drives-down-its-poll-numbers-20120712\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>, a poll this week confirms that backlash:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Negative opinions of the Supreme Court jumped in the wake of its ruling  on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care law, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2012\/07\/12\/obama-holds-lead-romney-trails-on-most-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\">a new Pew Research Center poll<\/a> released on Thursday that shows the percentage who have an unfavorable  opinion of the Court is higher than at any point since Pew began  tracking it in 1985.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not just among Republicans.\u00a0 According to the poll, disapproval among independents increased while approval remained unchanged.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not good news for Barack Obama, and it certainly doesn&#8217;t reflect well on Chief Justice John Roberts&#8217;s apparent attempt to sacrifice judicial prudence at the altar of popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one tries too hard to be popular, the result is usually less popularity.\u00a0 That appears no less true when it comes to the Supreme Court. Last week, we highlighted how public approval of the Supreme Court instantly plummeted following last month&#8217;s ObamaCare decision.\u00a0 One week prior to the Court\u2019s decision, twice as many people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2839,12,35,92],"class_list":["post-15098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-approval","tag-health-care","tag-obamacare","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15100,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions\/15100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}