A new Gallup poll has found that between 2020 and 2024, confidence in the judicial system in the United States dropped 24 percentage points, to 35 percent from 59 percent, the New York Times reports. “These data on the U.S. courts are stunning,” said Tom Ginsburg, an authority on comparative and international law at the University of Chicago. After the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade and the several prosecutions of Donald J. Trump, Professor Ginsburg said, “there is a perception that the judiciary has become inexorably politicized.” “This was a striking decline in the context of global attitudes,” said Lydia Saad, the director of U.S. social research at Gallup. “These drops are typically associated with pretty significant political upheavals.”
Only nine nations of the more than 160 surveyed in the past two decades have had sharper drops over any four-year period. They include a 46-point decline in Myanmar as it returned to military rule, a 35-point drop in Venezuela as it faced economic and political turmoil and a 28-point decline in Syria in the early phases of its civil war. Public confidence in the judiciaries of other developed nations has remained stable. Among the 38 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, median confidence in national judiciaries stood at 55 percent, a number that has been essentially constant over the past decade. The 20-point gap between the United States and its peers is the largest since Gallup started its global poll in 2006. The 35 percent confidence rate for U.S. courts is the lowest in the history of the survey.
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