Poll: As Trump and courts clash, voters weigh whether each branch of government has too much power
As a federal judge presses President Donald Trump's administration over whether it violated an order halting deportations, in a growing clash between the presidency and the judicial branch, more American voters are saying they think the executive branch and the courts have too much power, according to a new NBC News poll.
As a federal judge presses President Donald Trump's administration over whether it violated an order halting deportations, in a growing clash between the presidency and the judicial branch, more American voters are saying they think the executive branch and the courts have too much power, according to a new NBC News poll.
What's notable, though, is that the change over the last six years has been driven by Democratic-leaning voters, who have been frustrated at different times by both Trump's expansive policy agenda this year and the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
The new poll was conducted March 7-11, before Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who issued an order blocking the deportation of Venezuelan migrants. And as Trump and his allies grow more vocal about policies of his that are getting blocked by courts, it’s possible that there could be significant shifts in how voters weigh the power of the courts and the executive branch.
The NBC News poll found that 43% of registered voters believed the president and the executive branch have too much power, while 39% said the branch's power is about right and 6% said it has too little power.
Asked the same question about the Supreme Court and the judicial branch, 28% said the branch has too much power, 49% said it has about the right amount of power and 8% said it has too little power.
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