WASHINGTON – The country could have a new Supreme Court judge, but the Americans do not look too happy.

A majority of Americans do not approve of new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and would welcome further investigation of his conduct, according to a new survey commissioned by The Washington Post and ABC News.

Kavanaugh's confirmation to the country's highest court managed to divide a country already heavily polarized with protests for weeks in Washington and planned rallies across the country in the weeks leading up to the mid-term elections, which were to all focus on Kavanaugh. The first round of rallies is scheduled this weekend in Chicago and Massachusetts.

The survey revealed that 51% of Americans disagreed that Kavanaugh was on the Supreme Court while 41% approved it. He also found that a majority of people thought that the Senate Judiciary Committee had not done enough to investigate Kavanaugh's allegations of sexual assault.

Kavanaugh was accused by a handful of women of misconduct while he was in high school and at the university. He denied all the claims.

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The first was brought by Christine Blasey Ford, who then appeared before Congress to discuss a night in a high school during which she claimed that Kavanaugh was feeling her and covering her mouth to stop her from screaming.

The Republican-controlled committee met with the people involved in the charges, but the FBI, which was brought to investigate, did not talk to Ford, Kavanaugh and several others.

The Conservatives rejected the accusations, saying there was no witness and no evidence of aggression. But the Democrats pushed the process slowly and asked the FBI to investigate the allegations.

The respondents asked if they would support the Congress in its investigation of Kavanaugh, even if it led to an effort to remove him from the court. A majority of 53% stated that they would support another investigation.

Another 43% of respondents said they thought Kavanaugh's addition to the Supreme Court would make the court more "politically motivated", showing what some politicians feared after Kavanaugh formulated a number of observations accusing Democrats of "grotesque" character This assassination ruined his name and sparked death threats against him and his family.

While the ballot included a narrow majority of Democrats, independents were the most polled group in the poll. A slight majority of respondents indicated that they would be more likely to vote for a Democratic candidate compared to a Republican.

The survey was conducted by telephone on a random sample of 1,144 adults. It was conducted during Kavanaugh's first workweek and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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