Supreme Court justices were once viewed in high regard by the public, but now they’re seen as partisans, Republican pollster Brett Loyd said in an interview that aired Thursday on “What America’s Thinking.”
“Those justices were looked at by their merit,” Loyd, the president and CEO of the Polling Company, told Hill.TV’s Joe Concha, referring to justices from the 1980s and 1990s. “They weren’t looked at as a partisan chip.”
“Now it’s looked at as this partisan chip of the president is Republican and he puts together a Republican justice to be confirmed,” he said. “They’re not looking at ‘What’s the merit of this justice?'”
President Trump ran on a campaign that included the promise of appointing conservative Supreme Court justices.
The issue came to a head this year with Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, when several women accused him of sexual misconduct. He denied all the allegations.
“We’ve seen more and more contentious votes, and Brett Kavanaugh being the most contentious vote in the Senate for any justice in American history,” Loyd said.
— Julia Manchester
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