poll released last week showed that approval of the high court had slipped to 44 percent. Sixty percent now oppose life tenure for justices, and 76 percent believe their rulings are influenced by personal opinions.

"The American people are at a high ebb of their disapproval of Obamacare," Huckabee shrugged when confronted with the poll numbers on Sunday. "So if the Supreme Court wants to improve their standing if they see this poll, they will overturn Obamacare.

"First on the basis of the law and the Constitution -- which is the primary reason they ought to do it -- and then because they, in fact, realize that it's just bad policy."