| Roberts Court | |
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| September 29, 2005 – 18 years, 231 days | |
| Seat | Supreme Court Building Washington, D.C. |
| No. of positions | 9 |
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The Roberts Court is the time since 2005 during which the Supreme Court of the United States has been led by John Roberts as Chief Justice. Roberts succeeded William Rehnquist as Chief Justice after Rehnquist's death.
It is widely considered to be the most conservative court since the Vinson Court (1946–1953). This is due to the retirement of the relatively moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and the confirmation of the more conservative Justice Samuel Alito.[1] The ideological balance of the court shifted further to the right in the following years through the replacement of swing-vote Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and the replacement of liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Amy Coney Barrett in 2020.
Since the appointment of Barrett, the Roberts Court is the most unpopular Court since polling started by Gallup in 1973.[2]
- ^ Liptak, Adam (July 24, 2010). "Court Under Roberts Is Most Conservative in Decades". The New York Times. Retrieved August 5, 2010.
- ^ "A historically unpopular Supreme Court made a historically unpopular decision". CBS News. June 26, 2022. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
Quinnipiac isn't the only pollster to show a major degradation in the court's standing. The percentage of Americans (25%) who have great or quite a lot of confidence in the court is at the lowest level ever recorded by Gallup since 1973.
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