In sobering year-end report, chief justice laments litany of threats judges face, which he says put the rule of law at risk<\/p>\n
Violence, intimidation, disinformation and threats to disobey lawful court rulings are putting the United States\u2019s revered principle of judicial independence in jeopardy, the chief justice of the US supreme court, John Roberts, has warned.<\/p>\n
In a sobering end of year report<\/a>, Roberts \u2013 seen as the leading rightwinger on the court\u2019s current six-to-three pro-conservative majority \u2013 laments a litany of threats contemporary judges face in America\u2019s increasingly polarised political climate, which he says are putting the rule of law at risk.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In sobering year-end report, chief justice laments litany of threats judges face, which he says put the rule of law at risk Violence, intimidation, disinformation and threats to disobey lawful court rulings are putting the United States\u2019s revered principle of judicial independence in jeopardy, the chief justice of the US supreme court, John Roberts, has … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}