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.”
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This is rich coming from the CJ in light of yesterday's ruling.
The most disturbing and influential calls for violence are coming from inside the house that he helped build and insulate from judicial review. When (more) people follow Trump and his followers directions that the left is evil and must be eliminated by any means necessary, as happened 2 weeks ago in Minnesota, the blood is partly on Roberts' hands. Trump has personally attacked district court judges in terms that have no precedent, and it has not stopped Roberts or his colleagues at all in enabling him.
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