Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts took a veiled shot at President Trump on Tuesday during an event at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston, Texas.
Without mentioning Trump by name, Roberts said that personal attacks on judges are “dangerous” and must stop.
“Judges around the country work very hard to get it right and if they don’t, their opinions are subject to criticism,” Roberts said, according to CBS News.
“But personally directed hostility is dangerous and it’s got to stop.”
CBS News reported:
Chief Justice John Roberts warned Tuesday that personal attacks on Supreme Court justices and lower court judges are “dangerous” and said hostility directed toward specific jurists has “got to stop.”
The chief justice was responding to a question from U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal about criticisms of the Supreme Court and its rulings. Rosenthal, who was appointed to the federal trial court in Texas by former President George H.W. Bush, thanked Roberts for his defense of lower court judges, saying judges know “you have our backs.”
Roberts acknowledged that criticisms of the Supreme Court’s decisions “come with the territory,” and sometimes come from fellow justices in the form of dissents.
“We don’t believe we’re flawless in any way and it’s important that our decisions are subjected to scrutiny, and they are,” he said.
But, Roberts continued, “the problem sometimes is that the criticism can move from a focus on legal analysis to personalities. And you see — from all over, not just any one political perspective on it — that it’s more directed in a personal way and that frankly can be actually quite dangerous.”
This week, President Trump slammed “nasty” and “crooked” Judge Boasberg, an Obama appointee, for quashing subpoenas in the DOJ’s criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
Last month President Trump scorched Supreme Court justices after the high court ruled 6-3 to strike down his tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
Chief Justices Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch sided with the three liberal justices.
Trump slammed the liberal justices and others who sided against his tariffs.
Later during his remarks, President Trump accused the justices of “being swayed by foreign interests.”
He also slammed the conservative justices who sided with the liberals and called them an “embarrassment to their families.”
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