The Supreme Court’s approval rating is now above 50 percent for the first time since early 2022, according to a survey published Thursday.
The new Marquette Law School national poll found that 51 percent of U.S. adults approve of the job the nation’s highest court is doing while the other 49 percent said otherwise.
The approval rating went up by 3 points in two months. The December interaction of the survey had the court’s approval at 48 percent while the other 52 percent disapproved of their work.
The 51 percent represents the court’s highest approval rating since March 2022 when it stood at 54 percent, the Marquette Law School Poll noted.
The large majority of respondents think the president should follow the court’s ruling even if it is the decision does not go in his favor, according to the poll. Around 83 percent said the commander-in-chief is required to follow the Supreme Court’s decision while 17 percent said the president has the power to ignore it.
Nearly two-thirds of adults, 62 percent, support the Supreme Court’s decision from last month to uphold the legislation that requires Chinese’ company ByteDance to sell video-sharing platform TikTok or face a ban, according to the survey. Another 38 percent are opposed to the ruling. President Trump has delayed the enforcement of the law that was passed with bipartisan support in Congress. It was set to take effect on Jan. 19.
Republican voters are far more in line with the Supreme Court’s decision than Democrats and independents. Nearly three-quarters, 73 percent, of GOP voters are in favor of the ruling, a higher clip than 54 percent of Democrats and 53 percent of independents.
The survey was conducted from Jan. 27 to Feb. 5 among 1,018 adults. The margin of error was 3.5 percentage points.
