The Gallup Agency poll, conducted between July 5 to 26, came after a number of politically important rulings on abortion as well as environmental policy drew significant attention.

The poll found that 43 percent of Americans approve of the Supreme Court, a number that was within the poll’s margin of error but did not note a decrease. In fact, the previous edition of the poll, conducted in September 2021, found 40 percent approval for the Supreme Court.

That figure and the 2022 total are both historic lows for the Supreme Court’s approval rating since Gallup began the poll in 2000.

The September 2021 poll found similar dissatisfaction between Republicans, Democrats, and Independents regarding the Supreme Court. The recent poll found Republicans had improved their views of the Supreme Court to 74 percent (up from 45 percent in September), while Democrats have a historically low view of the Supreme Court, with only 13 percent of all Democrats in the poll approving the work of the Supreme Court - down from 36 percent. At the same time, political independents have largely been unchanged by the poll (41 percent in September vs. 40 percent) today.

For Republicans, the 74 percent approval rating is a historic high, close to the 76 percent of Democrats who approved of the court in a July 2015 Gallup poll.

The 2000 poll found a historic high of support for the Supreme Court. At the time, 62 percent of Americans expressed satisfaction with the court. Following the Bush vs. Gore decision in December 2000, a Gallup poll found a 3 percent dip in support for the court. That controversial ruling played a large roll in determining that George W. Bush would win the electoral votes from Florida and, with it, the U.S. presidency. Bush went on to win re-election in 2004.

The modest gain in approval comes as a number of key rulings from the nation’s highest court have drawn attention in recent months from the wider public. Many of these cases hinged on individual rights issues on everything from gun rights to mask mandates as well as a number of issues regarding the relationship between a state and an individual’s faith.

The greatest media attention has been regarding the landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24 which overturned the precedent set in the 1973 Roe v. Wade case and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992.

The most recent poll also found a historic high of 55 percent of Americans disapproved of the court’s job—a 1 percent increase from the last time the poll was conducted in September 2021.

The abortion ruling has become a political rallying cry for many Democrats and women’s rights activists ahead of the November congressional mid-term elections. Republicans and Democrats are expected to make the debate over abortion access a key feature of their campaigns.

A poll conducted by The Wall Street Journal in August found that 60 percent of voters polled said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, an increase of 5 percent from a similar poll conducted in March.

This story was provided to Newsweek by Zenger News.