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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Gallup finds a 24-point decline in Americans' confidence in their judiciary since 2020 – among the largest such decreases worldwide. Other countries where confidence in the courts has plummeted include Myanmar, Venezuela, Croatia, South Africa and Syria. news.gallup.com/poll/653897/...

Chart showing the 10 countries where public confidence in the judiciary has decreased the most in recent years, based on international surveys conducted by Gallup.

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LEGO Allan Houston @legoallanhouston.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I wonder how much of that is Democrats realizing that the Supreme Court is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Heritage Foundation and how much is Republicans butthurt that Trump was convicted.

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Crow @crow70.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Well,

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Shelly @shedvl.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

That's because Trump is not in prison.

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Guinevere 🏳️‍⚧️ @guineverehope.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Really feels like we’re headed for some very dark times and that we’ll need a detrumpification process to take place once whatever tragedy that’s bound to take place is over.

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MMcKay @mmckay7.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

What Trump and his acolytes have done to our beautiful country is a tragedy of historic proportions; the end result of which can only be imagined in nightmares.

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Dan Shay @dfs4114.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I blame The Federalist Society.

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msw599.bsky.social @msw599.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Outdated already.... ask us now!!

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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

There is a bottom to this decline. And I'm sure Trump will find it.

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MADVargr @madvargr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

There was s no justice system in America. It's all corruption all the way up.

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Derrick H. @raconz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Certainly reflects my feeling.

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Weird Alger Hiss 🎉 𓅳 @itsjoelokay.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

honestly surprised it's only a 24-point decline

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Unfriendly Goose @uglygoose.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Nothing unexpected. The unhinged SCOTUS and its corruption, the 2-tier justice system on full display and the lack of consequences for atrocious crimes committed in plain view tend to erode the confidence in courts.

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🎃 Erin, a bee 🐝 🏳️‍⚧️ (Ms Fidget era) @erinlisagayle.northsky.social · 17/12/2024

For a judiciary to be trusted, it has to not only be independent of politics, but also be seen to be independent of politics. The US supreme court is neither of those things, and maybe never has been.

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It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping! @pipercat.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

So the answer from the wise American electorate was to reelect the guy who was largely responsible for it.

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mantione.bsky.social @mantione.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I used to trust our Supreme Court, but no longer. Aileen Cannon is a perfect example of The Federalist Society judges who do not believe the rule of law applies to right wing politicians and corporations. They believe in illiberalism.

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Gayle L @stormyblue.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

And yet they vote for an oligarch that buys everyone he can.

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🍄 RFK’s Heroin Dealer @notmw2.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I wonder how trump would classify those countries.

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Katelyn Oldham *Abolish ICE. Defund DHS.* @katelynstarrpdx.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

We are experiencing the end of the rule of law in the U.S. in real time. It’s end is the death of democracy.

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chapnj.bsky.social @chapnj.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Of course we're amongst the other countries that are beset by authoritarian leaders.

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the-fishing-guy.bsky.social @the-fishing-guy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Corruption in the US used to be this foreign “thing”. It happened in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe. Now it’s an American “thing”. With the implosion of trust in SCOTUS (Clarence Thomas leading the charge in that), trust and in institutions will crater. And that is very dangerous.

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Dynamic Menace @xtatic78.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Trump is all the evidence you need that America has a tiered justice system. Convicted felons running the highest offices in the land with no accountability is proof. America has zero grounds to dictate to any other country about justice, democracy or morals, zero.

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gnarlygale.bsky.social @gnarlygale.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

the republican party has taken a wrecking ball to the institutions of this country, it’s going to causing systemic instability and will probably violence, i mean it already has, a guy just assassinated a ceo, all because the gop has broken the social contract

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Paul Harvey @paulitically.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The Supreme Court is almost entirely responsible for this, from its lack of ethical standards to its selective invocation of originalism to its aggrandizement of the presidency & of itself.

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TreClam @tjclarey.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Yet, idiot America makes no connection with their elected leaders.

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fredinoz.bsky.social @fredinoz.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The USA is now a total oligarchy I have zero faith / confidence in 1 The Courts -the rich game the system & avoid accountability 2 The gov’t - totally taken over by MAGA 3 The media - Mainstream media sane-wash both Right & Left & hold no one accountable

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Elizabeth Potter Graham, JD @elizabethpgraham.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Credit is also due to Geo. W. Bush, who appointed Alito and Roberts. I don't know how many Circuit Court judges he appointed but assume that many came from the Federalist Society.

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pre3chorded.bsky.social @pre3chorded.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Thinking about how SCOTUS said only Congress could enforce the 14th Amendment to help Trump, then said like a month later that actually presidents enforce Constitution and are immune from any challenges to that to help Trump again. Judges making up law as they go along to help Trump

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zendarva.bsky.social @zendarva.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Wow, more people are watching than I thought. The only excuse for confidence being that high is people not looking.

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Lindsay @lindzbernell.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Somebody should really do something about this!

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BeckT @northchattb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

What do all these countries have in common? I would bet it's Russia waging covert influence wars, funding Right Wing chaos.

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Common Sense Matters @commonsensematters.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Chief Justice Roberts WILL go down as the worst CJ ever and history will remember him for the total destruction of the three party system. Legislating from the bench was always a fear. It took character and ethics to stop this. This SCOTUS has proven it has neither of the two.

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peachy123.bsky.social @peachy123.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Commenters seem to be mostly assuming this is about the SC?

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Missy Barnes @missy0501.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

When you overturn precedent...

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Sane American @saneamerican.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

You can tell a lot about a country from the company it keeps.

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doom-scroller24.bsky.social @doom-scroller24.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The only surprise is that people had confidence in the Syrian courts.

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Fight the Lies @fightlies.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This did not help: prospect.org/justice/2024...

prospect.org

The Supreme Court Blesses a Form of Bribery

The ruling can be understood only as a policy preference.

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cstucker.bsky.social @cstucker.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

No reason to have confidence in the people who lied under oath or would rule differently if a Democratic President had asked for immunity.

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JDoyle @jdoyle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

A peculiar side-effect of Roberts and cohorts is that they have been temporary big players in dismantling guardrails against white authoritarian rule, henceforth judges will be very small auxiliary spear carriers.

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Billy @billyclub13.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Oh for sure. It’s such a disappointment to know that Garland complied on his first day in office. What a clown.

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Jared (hard "d") @jaredhardd.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

But hey, at least they got Roe overturned!

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"I was being ironical." @uxchampion.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Hangin' right in there, next to Uzbekistan and the Congo. Rah, America! 🤔

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Colleen 🫘 @ccacy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

We are officially a third world country

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Nora Lynch @funnynora.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This makes me want to cry.

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Jaye @jayt.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Hmm, maybe don't make up shit to take away people's rights or protect felons

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GoonerInSoCal @gonnerinsocal.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The MAGA effect i

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Julie @jadinmad.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

What august company we keep. Probably similar cohort with respect to maternal mortality. I imagine our no-confidence number is split between Dems and GOP - Dems bc of the failure of the judiciary to hold Trump accountable, GOP bc they have bought into the narrative of political persecution of DJT

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Übermentions @ubermenchies.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Side note: Venezuela's flag is giving ☹️🙃

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The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.givesky.social · 17/12/2024

Our judiciary declared presidential immunity unilaterally without any constitutional basis. Our confidence in them can't fall enough.

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Big Dill @b1gd1ll.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Somebody better start working on that book about John Roberts, Citizens United, and how he helped the oligarchs buy America.

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Ody @odeecs.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Maybe that's because our judiciary is absolute partisan garbage. The Supreme Court thinks it rules by oligarchic fiat, independent of the plain wording of both the Constitution and judicial precedent.

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I'm sure we'll get more lectures from Justices at paid partisan speaking events about how the rest of us should stop criticizing them because, "we were appointed and confirmed by elected officials for lifetime positions with zero accountability, which makes us Better Than You™."

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mb58.bsky.social @mb58.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

We have our Supreme Court to thank for this

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Joe Fabisevich @mergesort.me · 17/12/2024

I’ve never heard of those countries, is that good?

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Memewrangler @memewrangler.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

100% deserved

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drewp.bsky.social @afp1.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The company we keep

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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Our highest court repeatedly shows zero interest in fairness, tradition, consistency or the laws themselves We have no reason to have confidence in them.

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Chuck Mamzic @cardcatcher.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

And we can thank the $$$$$$ Roman Catholics like Leonard Leo who hijacked the Supreme Court. America is now a Right Wing Roman Catholic Caliphate. All that's missing is Generalissimo Franco.

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Charles Ramcharan @mokojumbee.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Wow. In Canada we’re a little bit proud that we can’t name a single Supreme Court justice but we all see the effects of their decisions.

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orchidchick.bsky.social @orchidchick.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Gee I wonder why. Not. They are so out of touch w the American people, but have hotlines to the Heritage Foundation. Duh.

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Chaddeus Stevens 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌹 @inv1nciblesummer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

How are they polling people in Syria and Myanmar

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Susan Colby @suappl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Is there some way to know how much Trump has influenced this fall in confidence in the courts?

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marriedcatlady.bsky.social @marriedcatlady.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

But worth it for luxury vacations and the knowledge that they’ve tossed out our Constitution for White Male christo-fascism and support a president who’s as criminal as they’d like to be.

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