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US confidence in judicial system dropped to record low this year, data shows

www.theguardian.com

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%.

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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.
  
  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.
- Stripping the fundamental right to control one's own body from half the population has dealt an even more personal blow to faith in the Courts. And we're seeing more deaths as it plays out in the red states, bringing it home to more families.
  
  The "party of freedom" took away a fundamental right from half our populace.
  Make it make sense.
  Women are now second class citizens in America.
  I don't think that fact has sunk in for a lot of people yet. Including a lot of women.
- 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.
Fucking wonder why
Meanwhile the NYC Police will be opening an emergency phone line exclusive for CEOs who feel threatened or harassed.
That's definitely going to convince people in general that the Police "works for the community" and that they should "trust the Police".
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
No shit?
Maybe if the judicial systems would start prosecuting actual criminals like Trump, Musk, Bezos, Clintons, CEOs, corporations and a bunch of people in power incl our war criminal presidents instead of people acting out of desperation, the public would have confidence in it.
Remember, people are resorting to extremes and MAGA movements because our systems have failed them and they don’t see a way out apart from being mavericks.
And yet, it's even lower than that.
Roe vs. Wade: “It’s $ettled law…”
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.
This makes intuitive sense. It proved to both groups that the justice system is a sham, just for different reasons.
They should change the name from Judicial System to just Kangaroo Court
- Nah they do it the other way around.
  Like how they renamed the "War Department" the "Department of Defense"
No shit?
Damn bro idk why
35% is a record low? That is surprising

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