A poll over the summer found 43% of Americans saying they have hardly any confidence in the court, up from 27% earlier in the year. Polls following the court’s abortion decision have shown a sharp drop in the court’s approval rating and in people’s confidence in the court as an institution. Orissa High Court, Cuttack, India, developed with an objective to enable a single window access to information and services being provided by the OHC and. VIDEO 02:46 Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed to Supreme Court Just five women Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett have served. Jackson joins the court at a time of declining public support for the court. Jackson’s husband, Patrick, and her parents were in the audience Monday, as were the parents of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and his wife, Ashley. Jackson, for her part, has been waiting for months to fully begin her new role since being confirmed in April and sworn in when Justice Stephen Breyer retired in June. Chief Justice John Roberts ordered an investigation, but the court has yet to provide an update. Several cases the court has agreed to hear involve race or elections or both, and the court has also agreed to hear a dispute that returns the issue of free speech and LGBTQ rights to the court.Īlso hanging over the justices is some unfinished business from last term: the leak of a draft of the abortion decision seven weeks before it was formally announced. A new stack of high-profile cases awaits the justices in the upcoming term.
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