Chief Justice Roberts sounds alarm on dangerous rhetoric aimed at judges from politicians
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned Saturday of the dangers of politicians using heated rhetoric against judges. “It becomes wrapped up in the political dispute that a judge who’s doing his or her job is part of the problem,” Roberts said in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the Judicial Conference of the Fourth Circuit, a gathering of judges and lawyers. “And the danger, of course, is somebody might pick up on that.