In Year-End Report, Chief Justice Roberts Addresses Threats to Judges' Safety

[Zorro]

The report, an annual tradition, shed no light on the investigation into the leak of a draft opinion in May or on calls for more rigorous ethics rules for the justices.

WASHINGTON — At the end of a wrenching year at the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. devoted his annual report on the state of the federal judiciary to threats to judges’ physical safety.

“The law requires every judge to swear an oath to perform his or her work without fear or favor, but we must support judges by ensuring their safety,” he wrote. “A judicial system cannot and should not live in fear.”

Some observers had hoped that the chief justice would use his year-end report for an update on the investigation announced in May into the leak of a draft opinion eliminating the constitutional right to abortion. Others had wished that he would announce revisions to judicial ethics rules in the wake of revelations about the efforts of Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Instead, as is his custom, Chief Justice Roberts focused on a historical episode, this one from Arkansas in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, drawing lessons from it. “The events of Little Rock teach about the importance of rule by law instead of by mob,” he wrote.

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Threats to women's privacy? OK with this Chief Justice.

Threats to women's rights? OK with this Chief Justice.

Safe corridors and spaces around abortion clinics? Why, that's just not necessary in a country with the right to freely assemble. But it's absolutely necessary around the homes of Supreme Court justices, because they shouldn't be intimidated by others who disagree with their decisions. No one should have to live in fear, and BTW, 2A baby!

Worst Chief Justice since Roger Taney. Even worse than Rehnquist.

[SheltieLover]

1. How about women & children's safety?

[Zorro]

2. Yes, Supreme Court justices shouldn't have to live in fear

The rest of you peons, meh...

- Chief Justice Roberts

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. But Conflicts of Interest?

Bleh. Thomas can do what he wants. I won't interfere, no matter how lawless and unethical he becomes. And the same goes for Barrett. She can play religious zealot all she wants. It's okay by me. Let the USSC be FREE!

[SheltieLover]

8. Yup!

[cilla4progress]

3. Pricks

are gonna prick.

All I have to say about it. Him and Alito whining the same. Elitists living in an ivory tower. Failures.

[MichMan]

5. When is the person who was caught trying to carry out the death threat on Kavanaugh being tried?

The two MAGA morons who were just convicted of the conspiracy to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer got 16-20 years, so that would seem to give a minimum threshold for how much time he will get.

I imagine that anyone caught while in the process of trying to carry out an assassination attempt would be looking at substantially more than that. Last I heard was that the courts ruled that he was mentally capable.

[Grins]

11. Immaterial.

Who cares? This is “whataboutism.” He will be tried.

It took more than 2-years for those two to get through the court system and be sentenced last week, so it’s going to be a while.

The court ordered a competency evaluation last October.

If convicted he could get 4 years more than the seditionists that attempted to kill a governor.

[MOMFUDSKI]

6. Sow.

Reap.

[bronxiteforever]

7. When your colleague's wife is part of a group that

tried to overthrown the government and others in the group wanted to hang the Vice President and kill Nancy Pelosi maybe your statement fails to carry legitimacy.

Speaking of Nancy Pelosi, hopefully you had well wishes for her husband who was hit on the head with a hammer.

[Martin68]

9. Too bad Roberts values the country and the Court's reputation less than his judges' safety.

[Wonder Why]

10. Justice Roberts, With all due respect, if you and the other Justices

earned the respect of the American people, you wouldn't be worried about your safety. Unfortunately, you are the Chief Justice on a court of members who lied to Congress to get on the court, who fail to be ethical enough to recuse themselves when they should, have conflicts of interest and are ruling based on personal prejudices.

You need to clean up your court to regain the respect it used to have in the nearly 240 years of its existence.

Yes, Justices should not have to live in fear - but then again neither should the American people. Neither our Election clerks nor the voters have to fear for their lives nor their right to vote. You have made yourselves part of the problem instead of being part of the solution.

It's time to clean house - YOUR COURT! Unless you want to be remembered as the Chief Justice when the dissolution of our democracy began, you and your fellow Justices must decide to remember why you exist.

[riversedge]

12. ..Roberts made no mention of the investigation into the leak of Justice Samuel Alito's draft abortio

I agree, there should be NO threats of violence. None.
But Roberts is a coward--not mentioning their own ethical problems.






Supreme Court's John Roberts says judicial system 'cannot and should not live in fear'

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-courts-john-roberts-judicial-system-live-fear/story?id=96026115

Roberts emphasized judges' safety in his annual report.
ByDevin Dwyer
December 31, 2022, 6:28 PM

...........Roberts made no mention of the investigation into the leak of Justice Samuel Alito's draft abortion decision in April, or of the growing list of alleged ethics violations against Justices Clarence Thomas and Alito.

Gabe Roth, the executive director of Fix the Court, a nonpartisan nonprofit watchdog organization, called the Roberts report a "disappointment."

"The increased public scrutiny the Supreme Court is under, due in large part to its growing power but also thanks to several headline-grabbing ethics scandals, isn't going away," Roth said in a statement.

"There's no doubt Roberts understands this; the question is what he's going to do about it, and the public deserves answers fast," he said.

[Solly Mack]

13. But it's OK for women to live in fear.

Fuck him and his safety.

[Iris]

14. Boo fucking hoo

[lees1975]

15. No comments about January 6th or threats to Nancy Pelosi's family members?

I've never been so on-board with the idea of packing the court than I am at this moment.

[live love laugh]

16. Fuck him.

[Pharlo]

17. My initial response was

Similar to many here thinking he was speaking only about SC. But he is not. There are a lot of federal judges who become targets. The most recent episode I recall was a judge in WI whose son and husband were murdered in an attempt on the judge's life. His annual message addresses an issue relevant to every judge in the US, not just the SC,