Public’s opinion of Supreme Court plummets after abortion decision

In our latest national NBC News poll — conducted after June’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade — the court’s favorability rating has sunk to 35% positive, 42% negative among registered voters.

And a combined 37% of voters say they have very little or no confidence in the nation’s highest court, versus 27% who have great or quite a bit of confidence in the institution.

That’s a reversal from our poll in 2019, when 39% said they had high confidence, while 17% had low confidence.

One more way to look at this image decline: In Jan. 2021 — so at the start of the 6-3 conservative court — almost every demographic group had a net-positive view of the court, including among Democrats, independents and Republicans.

Now? Democrats are at minus-51; independents are at minus-8; and Republicans are plus-36.