Supreme Court’s John Roberts says judicial system ‘cannot and should not live in fear’ – By Devin Dwyer (ABC News) / Dec 31, 2022
Roberts emphasized judges’ safety in his annual report.
The U.S. Supreme Court dominated headlines and our political discourse in 2022 down to the final days with its narrowly divided decision on Title 42 capping off a truly historic year.
2023 has even more history and legal upheaval in store: transformative and consequential rulings on race, immigration, gay rights and free speech — all certain to further test the justices’ standing in the public eye. The court’s conservative majority has shown no sign of taking its foot off the gas.
On Saturday, Chief Justice John Roberts used his annual year-end report to address the avalanche of criticism, political attacks and threats of violence that besieged the court in 2022.
“Judicial opinions speak for themselves, and there is no obligation in our free country to agree with them,” Roberts wrote in his first extended commentary since last summer’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade. But, he said, “a judicial system cannot and should not live in fear.”
