Chief Justice Roberts warns of threats to judges in year-end report | Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. presented an annual year-end report on the state of the judiciary.

The Washington Post ^ | December 31, 2024 6:10 p.m. EST | Justin Jouvenal

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday warned that judges nationwide are under increasing threat from violence, intimidation, disinformation and officials threatening to defy lawful court decisions.

Roberts said that robust criticism of judicial rulings is part of American civic life, but that some recent attacks had gone too far in threatening to undermine the independence necessary for judges to rule impartially.

“Violence, intimidation, and defiance directed at judges because of their work undermine our Republic, and are wholly unacceptable,” Roberts wrote in his annual report on the state of the nation’s judiciary.

The justice’s message follows a large jump in threats against judges and other public officials, as the nation’s polarized politics have taken an increasingly acrimonious turn. The U.S. Marshals Service reported that threats against judges have tripled over the last decade, and they investigated more than 1,300 incidents in 2022. The Supreme Court has come in for harsh public criticism — and sometimes threats — in recent years, following contentious decisions and a string of controversies over the ethics of the justices.

Roberts did not mention the court’s recent rulings or ethics controversies in his year-end message, but he did lament the killings of state judges and family members of federal judges in recent decades as examples of the rising dangers facing judicial officers.

“These tragic events highlight the vulnerability of judges who sign their names to the decisions they render each day and return home each night to communities, where they remain involved as neighbors, volunteers, and concerned citizens,” Roberts wrote. “Judges cannot hide, nor should they.”

Roberts also warned of tactics that fall short of violence, including disappointed litigants urging people on the internet to contact a judge, others releasing judges’ personal information and activist groups posting the locations of judges for...

[Alas Babylon!]

Question #1: Who in the FBI went to the FISA court and lied about Trump-Russian collusion to get a FISA warrant?

#2. Who signed said warrant?

#3. Why haven’t you done anything? It’s been more than five years.

[A strike]

-fJRoberts-
treasonous POS

[Organic Panic]

Weasel. Slimy rat bastard saves this warning after four years of the chomo ignoring the courts and an out of control DOJ?

[vpintheak]

Now what certain group of people have been threatening judges, huh?

[kiryandil]

blubberty

[OHPatriot]

I don’t understand why judges nationwide are under increasing threat from violence and intimidation.

Maybe these particular judges should look in the mirror and ask themselves if THEY somehow bear any RESPONSIBILITY for this situation.

[Jacquerie]

Chuck Schumer promised to visit the whirlwind upon conservative Scotus justices.

Oh.

[packrat35]

4 women on the Supreme Court is the problem.