Gallup poll: confidence in judicial system plunges

[Colonoscopy]

From 60% in 2020 to 35% today. I blame our relentless (and often stupid) politicization of everything. (owed in large part to our problematic politics-as-entertainment habit)

Sharp decline in confidence in judiciary is among the largest Gallup has ever measured

Americans Pass Judgment on Their Courts

Between 2020 and 2024, Americans' confidence in the U.S. judicial system and courts declined by 24 percentage points, one of the largest country-level drops for the courts measured globally since 2006.

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[BioHawk]

Well we have all witnessed the complete collapse of any pretense of law and order over the last year and now the courts aren't even pretending there aren't different sets of rules for different people. 35% represents the number of people who actually support the idea that the "ruling class" should get different rules than everyone else.

 

[Joes Place]

Almost like the GOP wants to turn us into a 3rd-world shithole country...