The Supreme Court’s public approval has fallen to its lowest level on record, according to new polling from Gallup, with a particularly sharp decline among Republicans following several high-profile rulings that went against President Donald Trump’s administration.
Just 33% of Americans now approve of the job the Supreme Court is doing, Gallup found in its latest survey. That represents a 6-percentage-point drop from the 39% approval recorded in July 2025, which had been the previous low point for the court since Gallup began tracking this measure 26 years ago.
Meanwhile, disapproval of the court reached a record high of 61%, up from 52% last September.
Republican Support Drops Sharply
The most striking shift came from Republican voters, whose approval of the court fell to 58% from a near-record high of 79% in September. That marks the lowest approval rating among Republicans in nearly three years.
According to Gallup, the decline may reflect Republican dissatisfaction with several recent rulings that went against the Trump administration. The court ruled that Trump did not have authority to impose wide-ranging tariffs on imports from most countries under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. In another setback for the administration, the justices voided a Trump executive order that would have sharply restricted the constitutional right to birthright citizenship.
The court also rejected Trump’s attempt to summarily fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook while a lawsuit challenging her termination remains pending.
Despite these losses, the Trump administration did secure some notable victories during the recently concluded term, including a ruling that allows a president to fire members of supposedly independent government agencies.
Democrats and Independents Remain Steady
While Republican support shifted dramatically, approval ratings among Democrats and independents remained essentially unchanged from September 2025. Only 12% of Democrats approve of the court’s work, while 35% of independents expressed approval.
Gallup noted that Democratic approval ratings over the past five years — since the court has held a 6-3 conservative majority — rank among the lowest for any party group in the polling organization’s trend data.
The new poll surveyed 1,200 adults in telephone interviews conducted from July 1 through 19. The margin of sampling error was 4 percentage points.
Gallup conducts its Supreme Court approval polling twice annually: in July following the end of the court’s term, and in September, weeks before the justices resume hearing cases in October.
Source: www.cnbc.com — https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/supreme-court-approval-poll-gallup-republicans-trump.html
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