Overview
- Roberts, who spoke Wednesday in Hershey, Pennsylvania, said justices decide cases based on law rather than policy and rejected the view that they act like politicians.
- He urged critics to focus on opinions instead of individual judges and warned that personal attacks can be dangerous.
- His comments followed last week’s decision that cut back a core part of the Voting Rights Act, making it harder to challenge election maps as racially discriminatory.
- Public confidence has slipped as the 6–3 conservative court has moved the law to the right on abortion, affirmative action, gun rights, religious claims, transgender rights, and federal regulation.
- After Roberts wrote a 2024 ruling granting President Trump broad criminal immunity and a February opinion striking down his global tariffs, the court now heads into more fights over executive power this term.