The court’s approval rating was at 25 percent before the Dobbs ruling.
Today, for the first time in constitutional history, the United States Supreme Court, by a 6–3 margin, took a fundamental constitutionally protected right away from half the population, a right around which generations of women and families have ordered their lives.
On Thursday, Gallup polling showed public approval for the Supreme Court to be at a historic low—25 percent. It’s a precipitous drop from the prior historic low the court received in September, which sat at about 38 percent. The six justices in the majority ofwill comfort themselves that this doesn’t matter. They will tell themselves that they corrected a historical injustice and that they saved unborn babies.
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