BUFFALO — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday championed the independence and authority of the nation’s judicial system to serve as a check on Congress and the president at a time when federal courts are being attacked by the Trump administration.
The three-branch, equal system of government “doesn’t work if the judiciary is not independent,” Roberts said during a wide-ranging, lively interview. The job of judges, he added, “is obviously to decide cases, but — in the course of that — check the excesses of Congress or the executive, and that does require a degree of independence.”
The three-branch, equal system of government “doesn’t work if the judiciary is not independent,” Roberts said during a wide-ranging, lively interview. The job of judges, he added, “is obviously to decide cases, but — in the course of that — check the excesses of Congress or the executive, and that does require a degree of independence.”
