Jay Leno started off is monologue last night with a couple of political jokes including these:
The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its ruling on the constitutionality of Obama-Care within 48 hours. So if you're looking for the right time to get sick you better do it now OK? Because shi....
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They say we should know by Thursday which it is. Well put yourself in the President's shoes, I mean the fate of your presidency is in the hands of the Supreme Court. Or to quote Al Gore "Tell me about it!"
(Laughter)
See he got kind of screwed.
(Laughter)
Leno and his audience seem to share my low regard for the Roberts Court's and the Rehnquist Court's impartiality.
A pair of polls from this and last month showed the Court hitting a 25 year low in the percentage of the public who see the Court favorably.
Supreme Court’s approval rating at 44%, poll says
Most say rulings are influenced by personal views
By Adam Liptak and Allison Kopicki | NEW YORK TIMES JUNE 08, 2012
WASHINGTON - Just 44 percent of Americans surveyed approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing and three-quarters say the justices’ decisions are sometimes influenced by their personal or political views, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News.
Those findings are a fresh indication that the court’s standing with the public has slipped significantly in the past quarter-century, according to surveys conducted by several polling organizations. Approval was as high as 66 percent in the late 1980s and more recently was near 50 percent.
The decline in the court’s standing may stem in part from Americans’ growing distrust in recent years of major institutions in general and the government in particular. But it also could reflect a sense that the court is more political, after the ideologically divided 5-4 decisions in Bush v. Gore, which determined the 2000 presidential election, and in Citizens United, the 2010 decision that allowed unlimited campaign spending by corporations and unions.
Hat tip to
The Eyewitness Muse
Public support of the Supreme Court hits 25-year low
May 01, 2012|By Morgan Little
The increasing levels of disdain Americans hold toward government also extends to the Supreme Court, which according to a new Pew Research Center survey is at its lowest approval ratings in 25 years.
This plunge in the the Court's formerly stellar reputation has corresponded with the Court's becoming
a reliable tool of the US Chamber of Commerce and its big members. The public may not dissect all of the details of the Court's decisions, but they still seems to have a pretty good grasp of where the activist conservative Court majority is trying to take the nation.
And Americans are not very happy with the direction they're taking us.