Americans Rate Supreme Court in New Rasmussen Poll

Rasmussen Reports released a poll of likely voters that finds that Americans give the Supreme Court middling marks. A strong plurality -- 44 percent -- of those surveyed think the court is doing a fair job while 25 percent think it is doing a good job and 19 percent think the justices are doing a poor job. Only 3 percent think the Supreme Court is doing an excellent job. The poll of 1,000 likely voters was taken March 13-14 and had a margin of error of +/- 3 percent.

With the court hearing arguments later this month on the constitutional challenge to the federal health-care law that President Barack Obama signed in 2010, it will be interesting to see if these numbers change in future months depending on how the court decides.