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Public opinion polls fielded and released this summer showed a by-now-familiar partisan gap in views on the Supreme Court. Republicans are not only more likely than Democrats to approve of the way the court handles its job (74% vs. 22%, according to a Marquette Law School Poll); they\u2019re also less likely than Democrats to say the court has too much power or that it has given the president too much authority.<\/p>\n

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Democrats\u2019 more negative views on the court, as well as the fact that justices appointed by Republican presidents currently outnumber Democratic appointees 6-3, explain why Democratic lawmakers are leading the current charge to reform the institution. They\u2019re behind bills aimed at adding justices, imposing term limits, and changing how the Supreme Court selects and decides its cases.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not the whole story: To say that Republicans are more supportive than Democrats of the Supreme Court and less supportive of reform efforts is not to say that Republicans are entirely satisfied with the court. Indeed, many of this summer\u2019s polls included signs of growing Republican unrest, most notably a Gallup report, released late last month, which showed that Republicans, not Democrats, were responsible for the court\u2019s approval rating dropping to a record low of 33%.<\/p>\n

In September 2025, 79% of Republicans said they approved of the way the Supreme Court was handling its work, a near-record high, according to Gallup. Yet by last month, that figure had fallen to 58%, a decrease of 21 percentage points. Over the same period, the court\u2019s approval rating among Democrats (12%) was \u201cessentially unchanged.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gallup pointed to President Donald Trump\u2019s high-profile losses during the 2025-26 term as a possible explanation for the decline in Republican support. In February, the Supreme Court struck down his signature tariffs. In June, it declared his executive order limiting access to birthright citizenship to be unconstitutional and barred him from removing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from office while her challenge to her firing continues. To be sure, Trump was triumphant in other major cases on immigration policy and the president\u2019s removal power (as well as on much of the court\u2019s emergency docket), but, as Politico put it in an analysis of the term, Trump \u201ckeeps losing the Supreme Court cases he seems to care about the most.\u201d<\/p>\n

A survey report released last week by the Marquette Law School Poll showed that Trump\u2019s losses do loom large for many Republicans. The poll found that 63% of Republicans now believe the court \u201crarely\u201d or \u201cnever\u201d rules for Trump. The figure has increased eight percentage points since May, when 55% of Republicans said the justices rarely or never side with the president.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s comments on the Supreme Court since the court struck down his signature tariffs in February have also likely played a role here. In speeches and social media posts, the president has repeatedly criticized the justices who ruled against him, particularly Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, whom he appointed during his first term. When asked about Gorsuch\u2019s and Barrett\u2019s votes in the tariffs case during a Feb. 20 press conference, Trump described the ruling as \u201can embarrassment to their families.\u201d On April 22, he took to Truth Social to again complain about his loss in the tariffs case and predict a loss on birthright citizenship, asserting that \u201ccertain \u2018Republican\u2019 Justices have just gone weak, stupid, and bad.\u201d On May 10, Trump wrote that Gorsuch and Barrett \u201cwere appointed by me, and yet have hurt our Country so badly!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Perhaps because she, unlike Gorsuch, also voted against Trump in the birthright citizenship case, Barrett has borne the brunt of Republican vitriol in recent months. Data from the Marquette Law School Poll shows that the share of Republicans who hold a favorable view of Barrett fell from 34% to 27% from January to July, a seven-percentage-point drop. Over the same time period, Republican support for four of the five other conservative justices either increased or remained stable. (The fifth, Chief Justice John Roberts, saw his favorability rating drop by a more modest amount, from 32% to 29%.)<\/p>\n

After the birthright citizenship ruling was handed down on June 30, several prominent conservative commentators took to social media to complain about Barrett specifically. \u201cIt turns out that Amy Coney Barrett is a DEI hire, little better than [Ketanji Brown] Jackson. Terrible pick. When\u2019s the last time we had a Republican president who didn\u2019t put a liberal justice on the court?,\u201d wrote podcast host Matt Walsh. Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, said Barrett \u201cshould be removed from the Bench.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barrett has also been featured in fundraising emails sent out this summer by conservative groups. In a campaign titled \u201cAmy Coney Barrett DROWNING in regret,\u201d Homeland PAC called on \u201cpatriots\u201d to \u201ckeep up the pressure\u201d on Barrett to reconsider the birthright citizenship ruling. \u201cDeep down, Justice Amy Coney Barrett knows she made the WRONG decision. And now she has the power to REVERSE her ruling and safeguard our American sovereignty for CENTURIES to come,\u201d the email said. (As SCOTUSblog reported on July 28, the deadline for asking the court to reconsider the case passed without the Trump administration filing a petition for rehearing.)<\/p>\n

Barrett also faced a good deal of criticism after she testified before Congress alongside Justice Elena Kagan on July 14. Barrett\u2019s descriptions of having to speak to her kids about security concerns and a recent swatting incident at her home prompted a flurry of tweets about how she has been compromised by fear and should resign from the court. Trump appeared to encourage these critics on July 29 by reposting a tweet about Barrett\u2019s voting record before and after security threats increased following the court overturning Roe v. Wade<\/em>. \u201cAmy Coney Barrett is clearly terrified of the left,\u201d the original post said.<\/p>\n

Although some conservative commentators and outlets have spoken up to defend Barrett, the backlash may only grow in the term ahead, when the Supreme Court will likely consider several more cases involving Trump. The president has asked the court to review the $83.3 million verdict against him in a defamation case brought by journalist E. Jean Carroll, and his administration has urged review of one of its signature immigration policies, among other issues, as I recently reported. Additionally, the Trump administration has pushed back against the court\u2019s rulings on tariffs, birthright citizenship, and firing Lisa Cook by imposing new worldwide tariffs, issuing a new executive order on birthright citizenship, and launching a new effort to remove Cook from office. All of these moves are fueling additional litigation, which could very well reach the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The justices\u2019 decisions in these cases and others involving Trump\u2019s policies will likely influence whether Republicans\u2019 approval rating for the court begins to climb back up \u2013 or continues its fall, creating a situation in which both Democrats and Republicans demand some sort of court reform or grow even bolder in challenging the current court\u2019s institutional integrity.<\/p>\n

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