{"id":119016,"date":"2025-05-14T15:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/14\/john-roberts-wants-people-to-stop-making-ad-hominem-attacks-against-scotus-justices\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T15:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:02:39","slug":"john-roberts-wants-people-to-stop-making-ad-hominem-attacks-against-scotus-justices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/14\/john-roberts-wants-people-to-stop-making-ad-hominem-attacks-against-scotus-justices\/","title":{"rendered":"John Roberts Wants People To Stop Making \u2018Ad Hominem\u2019 Attacks Against SCOTUS Justices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The court has obviously made mistakes throughout its history, and those should be criticized. So long as it is in terms of the decision, really, and not ad hominem against the justices. I just think that doesn\u2019t do any good.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Chief Justice John Roberts<\/a>, in comments given during a speaking engagement held at Georgetown Law earlier this week, where he once again condemned attacks being made against Supreme Court justices<\/a>. He further went on to note that he thought the rule of law was \u201cendangered\u201d among young Americans, saying, \u201cWe\u2019re developing a situation where a whole group of young people is growing up having no real sense about how our system of justice works.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post John Roberts Wants People To Stop Making \u2018Ad Hominem\u2019 Attacks Against SCOTUS Justices<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The court has obviously made mistakes throughout its history, and those should be criticized. So long as it is in terms of the decision, really, and not ad hominem against the justices. I just think that doesn\u2019t do any good.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Chief Justice John Roberts<\/a>, in comments given during a speaking engagement held at Georgetown Law earlier this week, where he once again condemned attacks being made against Supreme Court justices<\/a>. He further went on to note that he thought the rule of law was \u201cendangered\u201d among young Americans, saying, \u201cWe\u2019re developing a situation where a whole group of young people is growing up having no real sense about how our system of justice works.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"Staci
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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post John Roberts Wants People To Stop Making \u2018Ad Hominem\u2019 Attacks Against SCOTUS Justices<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. The court has obviously made mistakes throughout its history, and those should be criticized. So long as it is in terms of the decision, really, and not ad hominem against the justices. I just think that doesn\u2019t do any good. \u2014 Chief Justice John […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-MxHB3A.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}