Tone it down

That was Chief Justice Roberts' message at a 4th Circuit Conference this week.  From the NY Times:

On the day after the Supreme Court issued a decision that sharply curtailed the power of federal judges to block Trump administration policies, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. spoke before a hotel ballroom filled with them.

He didn’t say a word about it.

The chief justice on Saturday gave a public interview with Judge Albert Diaz, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, at a judicial conference in Charlotte attended by lower court judges who will be expected to parse and follow the Supreme Court’s directive limiting their ability to block executive branch policies nationwide.

During the discussion, the chief justice hinted at the stress of the end of the court’s term, which concluded on Friday, a time that he described as “a lot of sharp division and some sharp adjectives.”

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The chief justice called threats against judges “totally unacceptable.” He said he viewed it as dangerous when “it becomes wrapped up in the political dispute that a judge who’s doing his or her job is part of the problem.”

“The danger, of course, is somebody might pick up on that, and we have had, of course, serious threats of violence and murder of judges just simply for doing their work,” Chief Justice Roberts said. “The political people on both sides of the aisle need to keep that in mind.”

Meantime, The Hill is covering F bombs from politicians.