An Associated Press/ NORC Center poll this summer found that two-thirds of Americans think Justices should have term limits rather than lifetime appointments-a measure of discontent with the Court. Just forty per cent approve of the job that the Court itself is doing. Supreme Court.” In the latest survey, released last week, the portion who do is at a record low: forty-seven per cent. Every year since 1972, Gallup has asked Americans whether they trust “the judicial branch headed by the U.S. Fears about the Court’s direction are not irrational, and they are widely shared. But the lack of alternatives just shows how much is at stake-we could end up with no arbiter that is seen as legitimate at all. He’s correct that, in our system, the Court is the institution designed to insure that our laws align with our rights. There’s an element of denialism in Roberts’s words that does not bode well for the Court’s new term, which begins on Monday and includes another set of potential landmark cases. If the Court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the Constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle.” “But I don’t understand the connection between opinions that people disagree with and the legitimacy of the Court. “They are certainly free to criticize the Supreme Court if they want to,” he said, which is good to know. And he didn’t appreciate hearing people say that the Court, with its radical right swerve, had in any way undermined its legitimacy. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the decision that overturned Roe v. Many of the protests were directed at Dobbs v. He hadn’t liked driving to work past “barricades,” he said, an allusion to the angry marches and rallies that accompanied a number of the Court’s cases last term. At a conference in Colorado Springs last month, John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States, reflected on what he said had been an “unfortunate” year for the Supreme Court.

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