From the Fair Courts E-alert:  The Brennan Center reports:

A new Gallup poll shows Americans’ overall opinion of the court has remained nearly unchanged over the past few years, with just under half of those surveyed approving of the court’s job. However, partisan approval ratings have recently switched positions. “Republican approval of the Supreme Court is up 21 percentage points since last September, from 30% in 2013 to 51%,” finds Gallup. “Support among Democrats, on the other hand, is down. In September, Democrats were the most approving group, at 58%, while in the current survey their approval is as low as independents’, at 44%.” In The Washington Post, Aaron Blake writes that the flip in opinion is the result of a contentious term in which the Supreme Court “ruled that religious employers should be exempt from providing birth control to their employees and continuing [sic] rolling back campaign finance rules in McCutcheon v. FEC,” sending Democratic approval close to decade-low levels. Blake sees the polling as evidence of a “what have you done for me lately” attitude towards the court, and concludes that “[t]he difference between today and the past is that Americans can’t seem to decide whether they are generally on the same side as the court.”