ADMany in the Marquette poll said they didn’t know enough about seven of the nine justices to be able to rate their performances. In the Marquette poll, 54 percent who identified as Republicans had high confidence in the court, compared with 34 percent of Democrats. But in the Marquette poll, 72 percent of respondents said they would favor such a change. The respondents in the Marquette poll opposed “court-packing” by a 57 percent to 42 percent margin. The term court-packing “used to be an epithet.”ADIt is also worth remembering that the polls were taken after a somewhat bland Supreme Court term, when the court seemed to avoid controversy after the bitterly partisan Kavanaugh confirmation last October.

Source: Washington Post October 24, 2019 17:48 UTC