Summary
Americans’ confidence in the US judicial system hit a record low of 35% in 2024, dropping 24 points since 2020, according to a Gallup poll.
This decline is among the steepest globally over similar periods.
Confidence fell sharply among Biden’s opponents, likely tied to Trump’s legal cases, while Biden supporters’ confidence dropped 18 points this year, reflecting dissatisfaction with court rulings favoring Trump.
Democrats’ trust in the Supreme Court plummeted after the 2022 Dobbs decision and further declined in 2024. Meanwhile, Republican trust rose to 71%.
A convicted felon rapist who incited an insurrection and illegally attempted to overturn an election will become our leader and the most influential person on the planet.
Yeah. Our judicial system is an international embarrassment.
And so are we as a society.
Also, a Supreme Court justice who has taken millions in bribes ruled that bribery is legal. It’s hard to have faith in the system when the nation’s highest court is rotten to the core.
Laws only apply to poor people.
It’s rapidly becoming worse than that. Soon it will be:
Laws only apply to non-conservatives/non-Republicans.
It’s the Nazi playbook. It will start by ignoring the law when it comes to smaller minority groups like LGBTQ people, immigrants, etc but it will expand to include anyone who isn’t an adherent to the ruling party’s ethos and ultimately anyone who doesn’t bow their head/pay a bribe to the correct political authority.
Right now Republicans are mostly playing by the rules by passing laws that only punish their “out” groups/scapegoats but eventually that won’t be good enough.
Yep. If you read up on Nazi Germany, the speed at which they went from making laws restricting Jews from working certain jobs or the number allowed to attend universities to tossing them in ovens is pretty terrifying.
Of course, the people who voted for Donald Trump have never picked up a history book, so they wouldn’t know. Nor would they care, because their ideology only allows them to consider their own positions, which they believe to be safe.
As a child of the 80s ww2 was still relatively recent history.
Today it’s almost been wiped from the collective memory.
Yup.
Give it a few decades and we’ll be no better than Russia.
If you had told someone 30 years ago where we’d be in 2024, they simply wouldn’t believe you. That’s how far America has fallen.
Our judicial system is an international embarrassment.
And the only other option would rather keep repeating everything is fine while the house burns down instead of working to fix it.
Biden really said “no one is above the law”.
Like, anyone stupid enough to believe that is already voting R. For Dem voters it required too much cognitive dissonance. Either Biden was bald face lying, or he honestly believed it, which is even worse because it’s obviously not true
senile old man who grew up when the system worked believes the system still works? say it isn’t so.
What?
Biden was a politician fighting school desegregation…
Do you have any idea what the US justice system was like in the 1940s?
It didn’t work then, and it hasn’t worked since. It’s just an 82 year old can’t be counted on to remember breakfast accurately, let alone a literal lifetime ago
Fucking wonder why
A new Gallup poll, published on Tuesday, reveals that only 35% of Americans surveyed in 2024 expressed confidence in their country’s judicial system and courts – representing a decline of 24 percentage points since 2020, marking one of the largest national level drops for the courts measured globally by Gallup since 2006.
That’s a very rapid loss of confidence. You could assume it’s because people noticed the corruption, but then a lot of them just voted the most corrupt people back in to government. So there has to be some percentage in the poll of people who lost confidence for the wrong reasons (the courts are too woke and not hurting the people they should be hurting, etc.).
Astute observation. They could also falsely believe their candidates will fix the problems with the court system, which tracks with how they ignore everything else
And yet, it’s even lower than that.
No shit?
Roe vs. Wade: “It’s $ettled law…”
Damn bro idk why
They should change the name from Judicial System to just Kangaroo Court
