Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts says the judiciary's power to manage its own internal affairs 'insulates courts from inappropriate political influence and is crucial to preserving public trust in its work.'
for large employers and health care workers to control the spread of Covid. The court will hear the pandemic-related cases in a special session January 7.
Roberts did not mention any of those factors. But he said the judiciary's power to manage its own internal affairs"insulates courts from inappropriate political influence and is crucial to preserving public trust in its work as a separate and co-equal branch of government.
"The judiciary needs to take this matter seriously," he said, though he added that the cases cited by the Journal amounted to less than 0.03 percent of the total federal civil caseload. He said many likely were the result of unintentional failures in checking for financial conflicts.Roberts commended the efforts by the federal courts to recognize and deal with inappropriate conduct in federal courthouses.
Roberts praised one of his predecessors, William Howard Taft, who became chief justice a century ago, eight years after serving a term as US president."He understood that criticism of the courts is inevitable, and he lived through an era when federal courts faced strident calls for reform, some warranted and some not," he said.Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent who covers the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, based in Washington.
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