Without naming any names, the conservative justice also said during an event with students at Georgetown University that recent attacks against Supreme Court justices have gone too far.
“The notion that rule of law governs is the basic proposition,” Roberts said, according to Politico. “We need to stop and reflect every now and then how rare that is, certainly rare throughout history, and rare in the world today.”
In response to a student’s question, he also said criticism of the Supreme Court is a good thing—“so long as it is not trashing the justices,”
I trash the judges all the time. I’d invite them over to discuss it but I take a maximalist view of the third amendment and worry I’d have to be a true soldier1 without permission if I got any sass from Alito or Thomas.
1 Courts have yet to rule on whether No Limit Soldiers count and I don’t want to start the case in the 5th Circuit.