U.S. Supreme Court
May 15, 2012
What’s behind the sinking Supreme Court approval ratings?
The percentage of American's with a favorable view of the Court has reached a 25-year low. Why? By Vikram David Amar of UC Davis Law School
The headline of the Pew Research Center survey released a few weeks ago was clear - the percentage of Americans holding a favorable view of the Supreme Court has dropped to 52 percent, a 25-year low. What is less clear is why this general downward drift over the last decade or so (the approval rate was 72 percent in 2001) has occurred.
It's hard to be super confident about explanations, since the survey measures only bottom-line...
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