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hief Justice John Roberts urged Americans on Tuesday to stop personal attacks on judges, claiming such attacks were “dangerous” and a “problem.” The warning comes after the Supreme Court justice warned elected officials last year not to attack judges because the rhetoric could lead to actual violence against members of the judiciary. “Judges around the country work very hard to get it right, and if they don’t, their opinions are subject to criticism,” Roberts said at an event at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. “But personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it’s got to stop."

WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said on Tuesday that hostility directed in personal terms at judges is "dangerous and it's got to stop," commenting just days after President Donald Trump's ‌latest social media broadside against judges who have ruled against him and his administration.Roberts did not mention the Republican ‌president by name in his remarks at an event at Rice University in Houston. But Roberts, who has led the U.S. Supreme Court for more than ​two decades, said that while criticism of judicial decisions is welcome and often healthy, attacks of a personal nature against...

The most powerful judge in America has told Donald Trump to back off, warning that personal attacks on the Supreme Court are 'dangerous' and have 'got to stop'.| Chief Justice John Roberts said criticisms of judicial opinions were expected - but that 'personally directed hostility is dangerous and it's got to stop.' Roberts said dissenting opinions among the justices themselves were common, and that it was 'important' that their decisions were 'subjected to scrutiny.'

There is no institution that has lost more trust among the American people since 2020 than our judicial system. This is not surprising. The legitimacy of the court depends upon it being seen as non-partisan arbiters of the law, and ever fewer Americans see them as such. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) started this when he allowed only 28 percent of President Obama’s nominees to be confirmed in the final two years of his presidency — and that was before his double standard with respect to the Supreme Court nominations of Merrick Garland and Justice Amy Coney Barrett.

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A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the Trump administration can continue its swift deportation efforts of illegal migrants to third countries, overturning a lower court's ruling that the practice was illegal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit did not give a reason for the ruling but allowed the deportations to continue in a 2-1 decision. The panel also expedited the schedule for the case’s next phase, according to The Hill. Judge Lara Montecalvo, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, dissented, while Judge Jeffrey Howard, nominated by former President George W. Bush, and Judge Seth...

The Department of Homeland Security asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to let it end its Temporary Protected Status designation for Haitian migrants, after the high court let it end the designation for Venezuelans last year. The request comes after the department asked the Supreme Court to let it end the designation for Syrian migrants last month, though the justices have not yet issued a ruling in the case. Solicitor General D. John Sauer warned the high court in the latest filing that more cases are “waiting in the wings," and asked them to settle the matter on ending the protected...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that federal appeals courts must follow a deferential standard of review to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ determination that asylum seekers did not experience the level of persecution necessary to qualify for asylum protections. Writing for a unanimous court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said that appeals courts can only diverge from the judgment of the Board of Immigration Appeals when the evidence presented was “so compelling that no reasonable factfinder could fail to find the requisite fear of persecution.” In doing so, she upheld a decision by the First Circuit Court of Appeals and...

long-time U.S. Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse, recently wrote a surprisingly candid description of how U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts added “gratuitous” language into his opinion on the recent tariff case, personally criticizing the president on record. Greenhouse conveniently frames the justice’s indulgence, however, as a legitimate “warning” to both the president and “the waiting world.” She states that Roberts “is losing patience with Trump.” Apparently, the chief justice is thought to be entitled to act as a shadow president. Greenhouse admits that Roberts’s personal opinion of the president, made by a judge who is...

The Supreme Court struck down the majority of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs in February, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren isn’t letting the Administration weasel out of paying back American taxpayers. “If your Administration is successful in its campaign to avoid paying back illegally collected tariffs, it would amount to a theft in broad daylight from each and every American family that has paid the price of your failed economic agenda,” Warren said in a Wednesday statement. Per her office’s estimates, the tariffs have cost families about $1,700 each. The Supreme Court on February 20 ruled against the tariffs 6-3, arguing...

A majority of the Supreme Court is finally losing patience with lower courts it perceives as looking for ways around both long-established and recent precedents, tacitly answering complaints by more conservative justices that the high court was routinely ignoring rulings that flagrantly violate its precedents. In an emergency order Tuesday night, six justices rebuked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for blocking a permanent injunction against California's so-called gender secrecy policies, which require school districts to hide students' gender confusion from their parents and even falsely tell parents their children aren't presenting as the opposite sex at school...... It...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously that immigration courts must defer to executive agencies on key findings of fact during certain immigration proceedings, handing a modest, procedural win to the Trump administration. Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson, writing for the entire court, said "[w]e granted certiorari to determine whether the Court of Appeals applied the appropriate standard of review under the INA. We conclude that the statute requires application of the substantial-evidence standard to the agency’s conclusion that a given set of undisputed facts does not constitution persecution. According, we affirm."

A US appeals court on Monday denied the Trump administration’s bid to delay lawsuits seeking tariff refunds — a ruling that could pave the way for companies to get back the cash they previously paid for the levies. The Department of Justice filed a motion Friday requesting to delay cases seeking up to $170 million in refunds by up to four months after the Supreme Court struck down President Trump’s tariffs on Feb. 20. But this week, a US appeals court ordered the case to be heard by the US Court of International Trade, or CIT, where the case was...

America’s founding fathers probably drank too much alcohol to keep their guns under modern standards, Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested Monday. Several Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Monday of the Trump administration’s defense of a statute that prohibits “unlawful users” or addicts of any controlled substance, including marijana, from owning firearms. Principal Deputy Solicitor General Sarah Harris pointed to founding-era restrictions on the rights of habitual drunkards as historical justification for disarming marijana users, but Gorsuch highlighted a key difference in how the government now defines “habitual.” “The American Temperance Society, back in the day, said 8 shots of whiskey a...

🚨 BREAKING: 6-3, Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN New York Democrats' attempt to gerrymander away a Republican-held NYC Congressional seat to blue Democrats tried — and FAILED — to flip the Staten Island seat through redrawing HUGE WIN FOR THE MIDTERMS! Now Florida must redraw 🇺🇸

The US Supreme Court on Monday approved an emergency appeal from a Republican congresswoman in New York who asked the justices to block a state court ruling that ordered her Staten Island-based district to be redrawn ahead of the midterm election. The high court’s three liberal justices dissented from the decision. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis and state GOP election officials had urged the Supreme Court to allow New York’s current map to be used, an outcome that will benefit Republicans in the midterm amid a flurry of mid-decade redistricting in other parts of the country.

At present, 33 countries and two territories allow birthright citizenship out of 194 nations on the planet, meaning, it's not exactly a common phenomenon by global standards.AdvertisementThis hasn't stopped the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and some NGO they're politically aligned with from wading into another policy argument, calling President Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship to illegal aliens 'immoral,' speaking as a 'friend of the court' as the case on birthright citizenship goes to the Supreme Court. The document is here.According to Sahara Reporters:AdvertisementThe United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has launched a legal offensive against President Donald...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will take up a major climate change lawsuit targeting the energy industry — a case that could determine the future of similar lawsuits filed by left-wing states and municipalities across the country. The Court agreed to review Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County. They granted the hearing after the Colorado Supreme Court allowed Boulder County’s state-law claims to proceed, rejecting arguments from energy producers that the lawsuit is preempted by federal law. The decision comes amid a wave of nearly three dozen lawsuits brought by leftist jurisdictions seeking to...

The race to recover more than $130 billion in tariff payments is accelerating across corporate America after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down major portions of President Trump’s tariff program last week. What began as a legal dispute has rapidly evolved into one of the largest government refund battles in modern economic history, with at least 1,800 companies now filing lawsuits seeking repayment from the federal government. The stakes are enormous, not only for businesses but also for investors, taxpayers, and markets. The outcome could reshape trade policy, government liability, and corporate cash flows for years to come.Earlier this week,...

A federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden on Thursday again ruled against the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy, months after the Supreme Court blocked his earlier decision and rebuked him in a rare follow-up order. The Supreme Court not only stayed Boston-based Judge Brian Murphy's injunction over the same deportation policy in a 6-3 order last June, but the high court followed up with a second 7-2 order a week later admonishing the judge for flouting its decision. Murphy's latest ruling is also likely to land before the justices, setting up a fresh test of the judge's decisions...