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More Americans trust Judges Judy and Joe Brown than any Supreme Court justice: survey
Reader’s Digest’s ‘100 Most Trusted People in America’ study reveals an overwhelming distrust of public officials. Tom Hanks is the most trusted public figure overall.
Comments (18)BY ADAM EDELMAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013, 6:58 PM
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More Americans trust TV judges than the Supreme Court justices. The United States Supreme Court, front from left, Associate Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Standing, from left are: Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito Jr., and Elena Kagan.
Mistrust of politicians is alive and well in the U.S.
Americans overwhelmingly do not trust their elected and appointed officials, a new survey out Tuesday showed, with many of them saying they'd listen to a TV judge before a real one.
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Fifty-one percent of Americans trust the famously blunt Judge Judy.
Only 45% trust President Obama, according to Reader’s Digest’s “100 Most Trusted People in America” study, while other pols fared even worse.
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (24%) and House Speaker John Boehner (23%) came in among the least trustworthy of all politicians in the survey.
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