Above the Law: “A new poll from Verasight dropped this week, and its findings should be a wake-up call for everyone currently pretending the Supreme Court’s legitimacy crisis is a partisan fever dream. Short version: it isn’t. We’ve been tracking the Court’s legitimacy crisis for years now, and the numbers keep getting grimmer. Registered voters with “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of faith in the Supreme Court is down to a combined 22 percent. There are chronic diseases that poll better. The Verasight survey adds some new texture to that picture… and it is not flattering to the Court. The data shows that 64% of Democrats and 47% of Republicans agree the United States needs stronger mechanisms for controlling the Court’s actions given its entanglement with partisan politics. Nearly half of Republicans! On a topic where the two parties currently agree on roughly nothing, you’ve got a near-majority of the president’s own voters saying the Court needs guardrails…”