Confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court is down 11 percentage points this year, falling to a new low of 25%.| Gallup.com
Forty percent of Americans approve of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing, down nine points since July and a new low approval rating in Gallup's trend.| Gallup.com
Most Americans would welcome a female or Hispanic nominee to the Supreme Court, but few see either as an essential characteristic of the next justice. Earlier polling found a slight preference for a justice who would make the court more conservative, but Americans also clearly prefer a justice who would not overturn the Roe v. Wade decision on abortion rights. Americans tend to believe the organized lobbying campaigns by liberal and conservative groups will do more harm than good to getting t...| Gallup.com
Americans' trust in various aspects of the U.S. government is low, including 39% who trust the federal government to handle international problems.| Gallup.com