Roberts on personal attacks against judges: 'It's got to stop'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

03/17/26 2:40 PM ET


Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday pushed back on personal attacks against judges, calling it “dangerous” and a “problem.” “Judges around the country work very hard to get it right, and if they don’t, their opinions are subject to criticism,” Roberts said while responding to a question about handling criticism during an event at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. “But personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it’s got to stop,” he added.

U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal did not reference President Trump in her question, and his name never came up in the hourlong conversation. The chief justice’s answer, though, comes after the president over the weekend levied one of his most searing denouncements of the Supreme Court yet.

Railing against the justices’ 6-3 decision that invalidated his sweeping tariffs, Trump wrote on Truth Social that the court has “become little more than a weaponized and unjust Political Organization.” In a post on Truth Social, the president described Roberts and the other justices who ruled against him as “inept and embarrassing.”

Trump has also long assailed lower judges who’ve ruled against him, most recently targeting U.S. District Judge James Boasberg for blocking the Justice Department’s subpoenas in its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5788121-john-roberts-personal-attacks-judges/

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This is YOUR creation. OWN IT.

[Ocelot II]

1. Well, Dr. Frankenstein, you might want to sit down with your monster and his pals

and remind them to behave themselves.

[BattleRow]

18. The leopards are coming home to roost...

[Ocelot II]

19. Well, there's a fun mixed metaphor!

Leopards roosting in trees like birds of prey, waiting for faces to eat, but is Dr. Frankenstein's face included?

[NBachers]

23. Replied to by Ocelot!

[BattleRow]

33. I know that big cats do hang out in the upper limbs of trees..

Well,roosting was a bit of literary license..

[NewHendoLib]

2. Sane non maga Americans to Roberts - The judges need to stop attacking us!

[Marthe48]

3. Like a dog eating it's own vomit

All on you, dick.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. When you sow the wind you reap the whirlwind.

We are getting ro the whirlwind part.

[BlueKota]

5. Roberts unleashed the demon,

and he's whining because the demon is now tearing him apart along with almost everybody else in the world? Hey John, if only you'd remembered that psychopathic narcissists only give a shit about the person they see in the mirror. Eventually they turn on everybody but themselves.

Roberts is very much guilty of aiding and abetting tsf and whatever negative consequences he now faces because of his misplaced loyalty are his own fault. No sympathy from me.

[LearnedHand]

6. Gee, you FUCKING THINK?

Exactly what did you imagine this malignant man would do when YOUR RULING implied he had absolute power?

[orleans]

7. oh boo fucking hoo to john roberts. trump has been pissing on everyone, including judges, but now that he is

pissing on roberts "it's got to stop"

fuck him.

roberts gave trump the wink-wink, the go-ahead, the invincibility shield which managed to send that crazy /demented / piece of shit on the ride of his life, down from that golden shower trump tower moutaintop in his mind, & crashing into all of america and the rest of the world.

but now "it's got to stop?" HAHAHA!

roberts is probably just terrified that one of trump's magat base will be coming for him one of these days/nights like they've done for others.

[Girard442]

51. Yeah, J.R. -- you might want to read up on "stochastic terrorism."

[dickthegrouch]

8. Was the next question "What is irony, for $100B?" /nt

[appmanga]

9. Even Susan Collins couldn't have been more concerned (n/t)

[LilElf70]

10. This is YOUR creation. OWN IT.

You nailed it. Roberts and all the GOP in the SC own this. They can all KMA.

[appleannie1]

11. He thought when he stacked the court that they were all Aileen Cannon types that would trip over themselve to please him

On the rare day when they remember a law and oppose him, he fills his diaper faster. They have already become the most hated
SC in my 82 years.

[Just Jerome]

12. I've usually called it

Jurassic Park Syndrome, but of course it goes at least as far back as Frankenstein.

When you create monsters,
YOU.DO.NOT.CONTROL.THEM.

[Ponietz]

13. MAGA money/speech is what you hear, JR

[IzzaNuDay]

14. Where's that FAFO meme where one needs it?

Chief Justice (CJ) Roberts self inflicted injury — allow scotus granting immunity to Cheeto. CJ, welcome to the FO phase!

[2na fisherman]

15. Who Will Stop It?

Or else what? The Supremes have no enforcement powers to make it stop. And they may soon be easily removed by fiat from the monster they created. And the final arbiters of justice will be whatever kangaroo court Trump appoints in their place. Then he came for them!

[BattleRow]

35. I had a visual of all the Supremes in their black robes

singing ,"STOP! In the name of love!"

( A song by the original Supremes of Motown.)

[Tetrachloride]

16. Do no evil. Do know evil. Do evil.

[Scubamatt]

17. Wow . . . amazing what happens . . .

when you rule that someone is essentially above the law! You never could have seen this coming, right John?

[Wonder Why]

20. When your monster has you hanged, Roberts, try and remember why.

[Clouds Passing]

21. STOP ATTACKING THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE!

[2MuchNoise]

22. Whoever smelt it, dealt it.

[lostnfound]

24. You can make through Harvard without learning "Absolute power corrupts absolutely"?

Or do you just learn not to care?

How does a smart guy like that not know history of fascism/authoritarianism. Huh.

[reflection]

25. But "legally directed hostilities"

are perfectly ok, right Roberts? Jackass.

[usonian]

26. His own creation. He's a veritable PIG MAIL-EON.

Don't be mean to your child, Donald.

[greatauntoftriplets]

27. Didn't the horse leave that particular barn 14 months ago?

Roberts is way late to the party.

[BigmanPigman]

28. The "buck stops" someplace else, but not here and not with me.

"Proceed as usual" is his motto.

[Bread and Circuses]

29. NOPE ! SCOTUS will continue to be dragged and dragged ! resign

[TBF]

30. Dear Judge Roberts:

Galatians 6 : 7 - “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

And he should also read it to the others ...

[-misanthroptimist]

31. Me on attacks on the Constitution

"This has got to stop Mr. Roberts. It a dangerous problem that threatens us all."

[LilElf70]

32. Roberts,

You created this. YOU FIX IT...... yesterday is fine.

[Skittles]

34. Roberts really needs to go fuck himself

he very much has helped to divide America

FUCK HIM

[Goonch]

36. ;-{) Out of the Bottle

[J_William_Ryan]

37. Roberts needs to preach to his fellow rightists, Trump in particular.

Trump is the poster child of attacks on judges, with conservatives following Trump’s example.

Attacking judges is part of the right’s campaign of political violence.

[Hassler]

38. Time for ol' Balls and Strikes to

Do the safe thing and move onto a military base with Miller and Blondi

[KPN]

46. No kidding! The pretentious little twerp is shitting

his pants because the monster he unleashed is now encouraging his MAGAts to hate on him and other SC wing-nuts. He’s right about its dangerous — for him when both democrats and MAGAts hate and blame him.

[Faux pas]

39. EFF OFF

YOU EFFING BAG OF SHIT. If the villagers aren't happy, THAT'S ON YOU.

[Picaro]

40. Should have allowed the 14th amendment to be applied

Roberts is why we’re where we are today.

Stupid man.

[electric_blue68]

41. Well, well, well.... You didn't seem to mind drumphf denigrating all manner of people... Hypocrite!

[Martin68]

42. Fuck John Roberts! He defies the constitution and every SOTUS precedent to support trump's fascist agenda. And

And now he wants to complain about right wing attacks on judges? Who does he think he's dealing with?

[Aussie105]

43. Slow learner?

Only now noticing the natives aren't happy?

Talk about living in an Ivory Tower, insulated from the real world!

I can just hear the superior teacher's voice "Now children, you are being a bit unruly, and I want you to stop!"

[Akakoji]

44. To everyone implying that Roberts brought this on himself I am offended

by the implication. Properly stated, Roberts brought this on himself knowing full well that he, like every other stoneless and gutless Republican he was kneeling at the feet of a wannabe King. History will not treat him kindly either. He needs to go to every judge in the country and personally apologize. And if he's really sorry he'll correct Scalito, the drunken rapist, and the viciously self hating Black man. He will receive partial forgiveness.

[Blumancru]

45. It was okay when it was journalists

It was ok when it was protesters
It was ok when it was election officials
It was ok when it was Congress on Jan 6th
It was ok when it was whistleblowers
It was ok when it was comedians who ridicule the fat elderly one

But when it was judges, it was no longer ok.

[wolfie001]

47. 6 christo-fascists shitting on the SC currently

Enabler of that fat orange imbecile and billionaires. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on.

[Scrivener7]

48. Asshole. Tell us all about it, Taney.

[Ruby the Liberal]

49. Blanket immunity means you aren't protected from "dangerous'

So learn to live with it - just like you all keep telling all of us when you refuse to stop his BS.

[BradBo]

50. F off

[lees1975]

52. Well, Mr. Roberts, I think the solution is clear.

You've got the power. Shut his pie hole for him. Overturn that ridiculous immunity ruling you made for him and make him follow the law, and smack his ass down when he doesn't. It's really as simple as that.

I just wonder how it was that someone as dumb as you ever finished law school. Or did you buy your way through?

[Marcuse]

53. "You blew the Citizens United case. Now see what you've done."

[SpankMe]

54. A little both-sideserism in Roberts's response as well

Almost all of the current threats to judges are coming from the right. But they'll take that one out of a hundred coming from the left and turn it into an "everyone's guilty" narrative.

Eat my ass, Justice Roberts.

[Deminpenn]

55. Dear CJ Robersts, this is what the "unitary executive" you and your Federalist Society friends

have longed for looks like.

You and your fellow SCOTUS conservatives gave Trump effective immunity. Actions have sonsequences, so deal with them.

[Justice matters.]

56. To Dr. Frankenstein: You mean the convicted felonious rapist (E.J. Carroll & kids)

and indicted traitor who stole super-duper top-secret MILITARY documents and surely sent them to Moscow where from there, went to Tehran so the enemy could attack and kill service members on duty, and who also conspired to overthrow the results of the 2020 election illegally is now attacking YOU??

How stupid are you to believe that war criminal would obey you?

[tavernier]

57. Aww... Didn't like your "Dear John" letter from your sweetheart?

…especially when you did everything you could to prove your love?

One tiny little misstep and you are no longer loved.

[Crowman2009]

58. The supreme court needs to stop acting like they are sacred cows.

It's just as prone to corruption of political intrusion as the other two branches of government. The justices are not all knowing and wise like the media makes them out to be.