The Supreme Court’s approval rating among Americans has fallen to a record low, driven chiefly by a sharp drop in support from Republicans frustrated by rulings that went against US President Donald Trump’s agenda, according to a new Gallup poll released last week.
Just 33 per cent of Americans now approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing, a six-percentage-point drop from the 39 per cent who approved of its work in July 2025, which had previously stood as the lowest level of approval Gallup had recorded.
A record 61 per cent of Americans now disapprove of the court, according to Gallup, which has tracked public approval of the institution for 26 years.
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The steepest decline came from within the president’s own party. Republicans’ approval of the Supreme Court dropped to 58 per cent, down from a near-record high of 79 per cent recorded in the previous measurement in September, marking the lowest approval rating among Republicans in nearly three years.
Gallup noted the decline may reflect frustration that the court has bucked Trump on several major priorities, including birthright citizenship and tariffs, even as it delivered other rulings favourable to the administration this term, such as expanding the president’s ability to fire members of independent government agencies and upholding state laws restricting transgender athletes in women’s sports.
By contrast, approval ratings among Democrats, at 12 per cent, and independents, at 35 per cent, remained essentially unchanged from September and stayed near their historical lows. The poll was conducted by telephone between 1 and 19 July with a random sample of 1,200 adults across all fifty states and the District of Columbia, carrying a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.
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The court’s slide has coincided with a broader downturn in confidence toward the institutions surrounding Trump’s presidency. A separate Economist/YouGov poll found Trump’s own approval rating standing at 34 per cent, the lowest point of either of his terms in office, while confidence in Congress’ performance had also slipped to roughly 13.5 per cent of Americans, down from 23.2 per cent in July of last year, according to Axios.
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A separate survey released this week suggested the erosion in confidence toward the Supreme Court has persisted into August. A Marquette Law School Poll found national approval of the Supreme Court now stands at 47 per cent, having remained below the 50 per cent mark since November 2025, based on interviews conducted between 22 and 29 July with 1,076 adults nationwide and a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.
The survey also found that approval of the court closely tracks views of Trump himself, with 82 per cent of Republicans who approve of Trump’s job performance also approving of the Supreme Court, compared with just 43 per cent of Republicans who disapprove of Trump.
Taken together, the polling data points to a presidency increasingly judged alongside the institutions it has repeatedly clashed with in court, with both the Supreme Court and Trump himself now registering some of their weakest approval numbers since his return to office. Neither the White House nor the Supreme Court’s press office issued formal comment in response to the polling data.
