Chief Justice Roberts Wishes You'd Believe SCOTUS Isn't Political

Chief Justice Roberts would like you to simmer down with all the political talk.

[T]he [confirmation] process is being used for something other than ensuring the qualifications of the nominees.

When you have a sharply political, divisive hearing process, it increases the danger that whoever comes out of it will be viewed in those terms. If the Democrats and Republicans have been fighting so furiously about whether you’re going to be confirmed, it’s natural for some member of the public to think, well, you must be identified in a particular way as a result of that process.

And that’s just not how — we don’t work as Democrats or Republicans.

— Chief Justice John Roberts, explaining why he believes members of the public think that the Supreme Court is a politicized judicial body, rather than a neutral one, during a Law Day event at New England Law-Boston.

 

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