2026年3月17日 / 美国东部时间下午1:39 / CBS新闻
华盛顿 — 首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨周二警告称，针对最高法院和下级法院法官的人身攻击”很危险”，并表示针对特定法官的敌意”必须停止”。
“全国的法官都在非常努力地做到公正裁决，如果他们没做到，他们的判决意见可能会受到批评，”罗伯茨在休斯顿莱斯大学贝克公共政策研究所的活动中表示，”但针对个人的敌意是危险的，这种行为必须停止。”
首席大法官是在回应美国联邦地区法官李·罗森塔尔提出的关于最高法院及其裁决批评的问题时发表上述言论的。罗森塔尔由前总统乔治·H·W·布什任命为德克萨斯州联邦初审法院法官，她感谢罗伯茨对下级法院法官的辩护，称法官们知道”你们支持我们”。
罗伯茨承认，对最高法院裁决的批评”是工作的一部分”，有时也会来自其他大法官的异议意见。
“我们并不认为自己在任何方面都完美无缺，重要的是我们的裁决要接受审查，而它们确实也在接受审查，”他表示。
但罗伯茨继续说道：”问题有时在于，批评会从聚焦法律分析转向针对个人。你会发现——这种情况来自各方，而不仅仅是某个政治立场——批评变得更加针对个人，坦率地说，这实际上可能相当危险。”
首席大法官发表上述言论之际，全国联邦法官遭遇的威胁数量激增，其中许多威胁是在他们作出不利于特朗普政府的裁决后出现的。特朗普总统及其政府高级成员也对他们不认同的法官提出指控，称这些法官是”极左”和”流氓”活动家。
上个月，最高法院以6:3的裁决宣布特朗普的最全面关税无效后，总统指责两名他任命的大法官尼尔·戈萨奇和艾米·科尼·巴雷特违背自己的裁决，称这一决定”给他们的家庭带来耻辱”。罗伯茨和三位自由派大法官当时也在多数意见中裁定特朗普的多项征税行为违法。
总统还毫无证据地声称最高法院”受到外国利益的影响”，并表示多数派大法官是”RINOs（名义上的共和党人）和激进左翼民主党人的傻瓜和哈巴狗”。RINO是”Republicans in name only（名义上的共和党人）”的缩写。
特朗普周日在Truth Social上再次抨击最高法院的关税裁决，称其”不过是一个被武器化且不公正的政治组织”。
他继续说道，由共和党任命的大法官”公然不尊重提名他们担任美国最高法院大法官这一最高职位的总统，并且通过糟糕和错误的裁决与意图，刻意证明自己有多么’诚实’、’独立’和’合法’。”
特朗普还点名抨击下级法院法官——最近是华盛顿特区联邦地区法院法官詹姆斯·博阿斯伯格。博阿斯伯格上周阻止了司法部向美联储发出的两项传票，这是调查美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔的一部分。总统经常批评鲍威尔未能迅速降息。
特朗普周日在社交媒体上称博阿斯伯格”古怪、恶劣、病态且完全失控”，并表示该法官患有”最高级别的特朗普狂怒综合征”。
罗伯茨此前也曾罕见地就针对联邦司法机构的攻击发表过言论。去年，当几名法官因判决问题面临特朗普和一些国会共和党人的弹劾呼吁时，首席大法官表示，弹劾”不是对司法裁决异议的适当回应”。
2020年，罗伯茨驳斥了参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默对戈萨奇和布雷特·卡瓦诺大法官的批评，称这些言论”不合适且危险”。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/threats-against-public-officials-surged-2025/
Chief Justice Roberts says personal attacks on judges are “dangerous and it’s got to stop”
March 17, 2026 / 1:39 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — Chief Justice John Roberts warned Tuesday that personal attacks on Supreme Court justices and lower court judges are “dangerous” and said hostility directed toward specific jurists has “got to stop.”
“Judges around the country work very hard to get it right and if they don’t, their opinions are subject to criticism,” Roberts said during an event at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston. “But personally directed hostility is dangerous and it’s got to stop.”
The chief justice was responding to a question from U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal about criticisms of the Supreme Court and its rulings. Rosenthal, who was appointed to the federal trial court in Texas by former President George H.W. Bush, thanked Roberts for his defense of lower court judges, saying judges know “you have our backs.”
Roberts acknowledged that criticisms of the Supreme Court’s decisions “come with the territory,” and sometimes come from fellow justices in the form of dissents.
“We don’t believe we’re flawless in any way and it’s important that our decisions are subjected to scrutiny, and they are,” he said.
But, Roberts continued, “the problem sometimes is that the criticism can move from a focus on legal analysis to personalities. And you see — from all over, not just any one political perspective on it — that it’s more directed in a personal way and that frankly can be actually quite dangerous.”
The chief justice’s comments come as federal judges around the country have encountered a surge of threats, many of them arising after issuing decisions against the Trump administration. President Trump and senior members of his administration have also leveled accusations against judges whose rulings they disagree with, claiming they are “far-left” and “rogue” activists.
After the Supreme Court invalidated Mr. Trump’s most sweeping tariffs last month in a 6-3 decision, the president denounced two justices he appointed for ruling against him, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, saying the decision was an “embarrassment to their families.” Roberts and the three liberal justices were also in the majority that found many of Mr. Trump’s levies to be illegal.
The president also claimed without evidence that the Supreme Court has been “swayed by foreign interests,” and said the justices in the majority were “fools and lap dogs for the RINOs and the radical left Democrats.” RINO is short for “Republicans in name only.”
Mr. Trump re-upped his attacks on the Supreme Court for its tariffs decision on Sunday, claiming in a post on Truth Social that it is “little more than a weaponized and unjust political organization.”
The Republican-appointed justices, he continued, “openly disrespect the Presidents who nominate them to the highest position in the Land, a Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and go out of their way, with bad and wrongful rulings and intentions, to prove how ‘honest,’ ‘independent,’ and ‘legitimate’ they are.”
Mr. Trump has also lambasted lower court judges by name — most recently Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. district court in Washington, D.C. Boasberg last week blocked a pair of subpoenas issued by the Justice Department to the Federal Reserve as part of an investigation into Chairman Jerome Powell. The president often criticizes Powell for failing to rapidly cut interest rates.
Boasberg, Mr. Trump claimed on social media on Sunday, is “wacky, nasty, cooked, and totally out of control.” He said the judge also suffers from “the highest level of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
Roberts has spoken out about the attacks on the federal judiciary before, though on rare occasions. Last year, as several judges faced calls for impeachment by Mr. Trump and some Republicans in Congress because of their rulings, the chief justice said impeachment “is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.”
In 2020, Roberts pushed back against comments from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer targeting Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, calling them “inappropriate” and “dangerous.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/threats-against-public-officials-surged-2025/
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