Chief Justice Roberts warns against elected officials’ heated political words about judges

·Supreme CourtChief Justice Roberts warns against elected officials’ heated political words judgesBY Mark ShermanBY The Associated PressBY Mark ShermanBY The Associated PressChief Justice of the U

Supreme Court John Roberts during a lecture to the Georgetown Law School graduating class on May 12

Manuel Balce Ceneta—AP PhotoChief Justice John Roberts, speaking at a moment when threats against judges are on the rise, warned on Saturday that elected officials’ heated words judges can lead to threats or acts of violence by others

Without identifying anyone by name, Roberts ly referenced Republican President Donald Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York when he said he has felt compelled to issue public rebukes of figures in both parties in recent years. “It becomes wrapped up in the political dispute that a judge who’s doing his or her job is part of the blem,” Roberts said at a gathering of lawyers and judges in Charlotte, North Carolina. “And 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

So I think the political people on both sides of the aisle need to keep that in mind. ” Roberts appeared at the 4th U

Circuit Court of Appeals judicial conference on the day after the Supreme Court issued the final decisions of its term, including a major victory for Trump that limits judges’ ability to use court orders with nationwide reach to block his agenda

C-Span carried Roberts’ conversation with Judge Albert Diaz, the 4th Circuit’s chief judge

In 2020, Roberts called out Schumer for remarks that Roberts termed inappriate and threatening after the senator said Trump-nominated Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch “will pay the price” for votes in a then-pending Louisiana abortion case

Schumer later said he should not have used those words

Two years later, with the court on the verge of overturning Roe v

Wade’s constitutional tections for abortion, police arrested an armed man outside Kavanaugh’s in suburban Washington

In April, Nicholas John Roske pleaded guilty to trying to kill Kavanaugh

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