U.S. Supreme Court and Judiciary

Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking at Rice University's Baker Institute in Houston, warned that personally directed hostility toward judges "is dangerous and it's got to stop," distinguishing legitimate critique of rulings from personal attacks and rejecting the notion that justices simply carry out presidents' agendas. His remarks came two days after former President Trump's Truth Social broadside against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg and follow a rise in threats — the U.S. Marshals Service logged 564 threats in the last fiscal year — amid similar attacks from senior Trump officials and a congressional boost to judicial security funding.