What percentage of Americans approve of the Supreme Court?
Critical Analysis
Find answers to the following questions using the visual above, any links below, and your knowledge of American government and politics:
Based on the data from the chart above, since 2000, identify the highest approval and the lowest approval of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Based on the data from the chart above, describe one trend in the approval of the U.S. Supreme Court since 2000.
A student named Hans said that the Supreme Court’s approval rating is irrelevant. What fact about the U.S. Supreme Court supports Hans’s claim?
The Court opens its annual term on the first Monday in October. How do you plan on celebrating this year’s start of the Supreme Court?
Do you approve or disapprove of the way the Supreme Court is handling its job?
What is the Supreme Court’s job, anyway?
Describe how partisan identification impacts opinion of the Court?*
The Court currently consists of 6 Republicans and 3 Democrats; 6 males and 3 females, and 2 non-Whites and 7 Whites. Why do you think the Court is so unrepresentative of America.
“John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.” was famously uttered by President Andrew Jackson in response to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall’s 1832 decision in Worcester v. Georgia. What did President Jackson mean?
Learning Extension
Check out the latest Gallup polling data on American views of the Supreme Court.
Action Extension
John Roberts is the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice. Contact him and explain one thing he could do to improve the favorability of the U.S. Supreme Court:
