Public opinion of the Supreme Court remains underwater but has improved by several percentage points since it dropped precipitously in June 2022 when the court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a new poll.
Among U.S. adults responding to the latest Marquette Law School survey, 47 percent currently approve of the court, while 53 percent do not. The school interviewed 1,000 adults nationwide from Jan. 9 to Jan. 20, 2023. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
Support for the court was highest among Republicans (67 percent approval versus 33 percent disapproval) and lowest among Democrats (35–65) and Independents (42–58), according to the new poll.
The approval figure that is now at 47 percent has been rising since it dipped to 38 percent in July 2022 in the aftermath of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision which, 49 years after Roe, returned the regulation of the procedure to the states….