Impeachment is not how you register disagreement with decisions. That’s what we’re there for. This job is to obviously decide cases, but in the course of that, to check the excesses of Congress or the executive, and that does require a degree of independence.
— Chief Justice John Roberts, in remarks given during a speaking engagement earlier this week, where he continued his defense of the judiciary amid Donald Trump’s repeated attacks upon judges and their rulings. Roberts’s comments drew applause from the audience, as he called for the administration to respect the appellate process.
