A new Gallup poll has come out. “In this country, do you have confidence in each of the following or not? How about the judicial system and courts?”

The median of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s median is 55% yes. So in other countries, you get about half of the people saying yes. And as reported by Gallup, between 2006 and 2020 America tracked the OECD median. Now? 35%.

As confidence in the judiciary drops, perhaps people will seek new solutions and it will lose its independence. Perhaps new oversight will be put in place. It would be interesting to see a breakdown of state court confidence versus federal court confidence, as the question doesn’t specify, and America has a whole lot of courts.

Maybe it seems radical to suggest the courts need such oversight. But I no longer think so, given the Supreme Court’s love for lavish gifts and disintegration of the principles of our system of law. When a stenographer working for a state court has stricter financial reporting requirements than the highest judicial office in the United States of America, hell yes, I can see why confidence is low.

Either policy makers act or confidence in what I would consider a critical branch of government continues to deteriorate. I know which one I’d pick.