{"id":2599799,"date":"2026-05-07T08:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roberts-urges-supreme-court-critics-to-stop-personal-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:50:25","slug":"roberts-urges-supreme-court-critics-to-stop-personal-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roberts-urges-supreme-court-critics-to-stop-personal-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberts urges Supreme Court critics to stop personal attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Froberts-urges-supreme-court-critics-to-stop-personal-attacks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2599799&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Chief Justice John Roberts said that criticism of the supreme Court should focus on legal reasoning rather than turning into personal attacks on judges, warning that \u201cpersonalizing\u201d dissent can create serious problems.His remarks came as the Court faced backlash over a recent 6-3 decision in *Louisiana v. Callais*, which struck down Louisiana\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-republicans-in-crucial-redistricting-battle\/\" title=\"... Sides with Republicans in Key Redistricting Case\">race-based redistricting<\/a> as unconstitutional and found it violated the Constitution and the limits of Section 2 of the voting Rights Act. The ruling has <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >renewed redistricting efforts<\/a> in several Southern states. Roberts also noted earlier controversies, including political hostility after the Court limited some of President Donald Trump\u2019s tariff efforts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>Chief Justice <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-roberts\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1007\">John Roberts<\/a> decried personal attacks on himself and his fellow justices as the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"203\">Supreme Court<\/a> faces backlash surrounding a recent gerrymandering decision.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came after the high court ruled 6-3 that race-based redistricting was unconstitutional, finding that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/louisiana\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"529\">Louisiana\u2019s <\/a>second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-depth-federal-state-lawsuits-seek-constitutional-clarity-on-racial-gerrymanders\/\" title=\"Federal and state lawsuits aim to clarify constitutionality of &quot;racial gerrymanders.&quot;\">black-majority congressional district<\/a> was created in violation of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/constitution\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"424\">Constitution<\/a> and the scope of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in the landmark case <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4410470\/supreme-court-strikes-down-race-based-redistricting-map-in-louisiana\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4410470\/supreme-court-strikes-down-race-based-redistricting-map-in-louisiana\/\">Louisiana v. 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It\u2019s a free country, and I certainly don\u2019t object to it, and I don\u2019t think my colleagues do either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the other hand \u2026 there is a point where it changes from criticism of the opinion to criticism of the judge, and it can lead to some very serious problems,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cAs soon as you personalize, it can become problematic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/4552880\/gorsuch-supreme-court-leaks-dobbs-shadow-docket\/\"><strong>GORSUCH STRESSES \u2018CANDID CONVERSATIONS\u2019 AMONG JUSTICES AFTER SUPREME COURT LEAKS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the court issued a decision that rolled back President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"4\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> tariff efforts.<br \/>After the decision, Trump took to social media, calling the court \u201cinept and embarrassing\u201d on\u00a0Truth Social and accusing the dissenting judges of \u201copenly disrespecting the presidents who appointed them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of hostility that\u2019s publicized about judicial decisions and which judge wrote those decisions,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cI think we have to be a little more careful and make sure people, to the extent you can, are more careful about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice Roberts warned against personal attacks as gerrymandering backlash grows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4195,"featured_media":2599800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP25132762382266.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[46920,44977,37408,11006,32275],"class_list":["post-2599799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-judicial-ethics","tag-paul-ryan","tag-political-rhetoric","tag-roberts","tag-supreme-court"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP25132762382266.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599803,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599799\/revisions\/2599803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2599800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}