American confidence in the Supreme Court has plunged to historic lows. It’s not so much because of their rulings, but the behavior of individual justices, and their method of selection. Without serious judicial reform, such mistrust of our highest court is going to trickle down to lower levels of the judiciary with consequences too dire to ignore.

Earlier last month Jeffrey M. Jones with Gallup Polling found America’s views of the Supreme Court reached a record low. It now stands at 40%, well below the 60%+ of Americans who said they approved of the way the Supreme Court did its job back in 2000. 

John A. Tures is a professor of political science at LaGrange College in Georgia. He can be reached at jtures@lagrange.edu. His Twitter account is @JohnTures2.