Chief Justice John Roberts closed a tumultuous year for the Supreme Court with an annual report that recalled the violent resistance the judiciary faced when it aggressively dismantled state-enforced racial segregation in the 1950s and ‘60s.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal , a co-sponsor of the judicial-security bill that the chief justice cited, called the report “a huge missed opportunity.”
The chief justice “could have said, ‘We need to face facts, we need to face our own challenges,’” Mr. Blumenthal said, adding, “I think there will be a move again for legislation to require more financial disclosure” and other ethics measures. “Judicial opinions speak for themselves, and there is no obligation in our free country to agree with them,” the chief justice wrote in his year-end report. “Indeed, we judges frequently dissent—sometimes strongly—from our colleagues’ opinions, and we explain why” in court opinions.
“In an organized society, there can be nothing but ultimate confusion and chaos if court decrees” are flouted, the report quotes Judge Davies saying. Chief Justice Roberts added that the courthouse bench where Judge Davies presided—and where civil-rights attorney Thurgood Marshall, later a justice, argued—would be placed on display at the Supreme Court.
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