A new poll shows that a majority of Americans do not like the Biden administration’s legislation on filling the Supreme Court, but support eliminating the lifetime system for Supreme Court justices.
The Reuters-Ipsos poll, conducted April 15 to April 16, found that only 22 percent of respondents support lifetime appointments for Supreme Court justices, while 63 percent support setting term limits for justices and requiring justices to leave the Supreme Court after a certain amount of time. The rest of the respondents had no opinion or were unsure.
On the other hand, the White House’s new vision of a populated Supreme Court was said to be less popular, with only 38 percent declaring support for an expanded Supreme Court with more justices, while 42 percent opposed such an idea. The remaining 20 percent of respondents were unsure.
The Biden administration has pledged to launch a bipartisan commission aimed at studying potential reforms to the court, with discussions ranging from adding more justices to the Supreme Court to a system of shorter terms.
Conservatives denounced the move to directly reject an election lawsuit filed by Texas along with more than a dozen Republican states during the November 2020 elections, a move that has led to a significant loss of public confidence in the Supreme Court.
In the Reuters-Ipsos poll, many Americans said they lack confidence in the court, with only 49 percent saying they have a fair amount of confidence in the court’s decisions, though that percentage is still higher than the percentage of respondents who have confidence in the White House or members of Congress.
The poll was conducted online using responses from 1,003 U.S. adults with a confidence interval of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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