Under fire for Trump rulings, Chief Justice says courts still check political power

Wall Street Journal: Chief Justice John Roberts said in his year-end message that the judiciary remains a constraint on political power, as the Supreme Court faces criticism that it was too deferential to President Trump in 2025.

The Constitution was designed “to safeguard the independence of federal judges and ensure their ability to serve as a counter-majoritarian check on the political branches,” Roberts wrote in his annual report on the federal judiciary. “This arrangement, now in place for 236 years, has served the country well.”…

Washington Post: The comments came in Roberts’s annual report on the state of the judiciary, which largely sidestepped contemporary controversies and events at a moment of political upheaval. Many of those concerns have revolved around President Donald Trump’s push to expand executive authority and wield power that critics say belongs to other branches of the government…