US confidence in judicial system dropped to record low this year, data shows
US confidence in judicial system dropped to record low this year, data shows
Only a few countries, including Venezuela and Syria, have experienced larger drops in confidence in their courts
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.
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.
This reminded me... My 13 year old stepson came over on the day he learned about the Holocaust in school (Alabama) and was delighted to tell us that as a pale, blonde and blue-eyed boy he would have been considered perfect by Nazi standards. Then proceeded to complain that it wasn't fair that he got detention for telling other kids in his class that history proved he was better than them because he would have had a great life when they went to concentration camps. 😢
We say and do stupid things as children.
But 13... At least he's only a stepchild. That boy is gonna have some times ahead of him.
I'm surprised he got detention in Alabama though.
It can be hard to avoid repeating history even under the best circumstances. But if you have a weak education system, which varies GREATLY from state to state or county to county, you're basically doomed to repeat it. I've met some people that technically graduated high school, but shouldn't have made it out of 3rd grade. We're letting people waltz through the system and come out unbelievably under-educated. It's sad.
And that's why a rapist is about to be our president.
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.
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