Vice President JD Vance on Monday denounced John Roberts’ recent comments about the role of the judiciary, accusing the Supreme Court chief justice of echoing a “profoundly wrong sentiment,” while asserting that the courts need to be “deferential” to President Donald Trump.
Roberts, earlier this month, spoke about the importance of judicial independence in the face of relentless attacks on judges.
In the Constitution, the judiciary “is a co-equal branch of government, separate from the others, with the authority to interpret the Constitution as law and strike down, obviously, acts of Congress or acts of the president,” Roberts explained.
“Its job is to, obviously, decide cases but in the course of that check the excesses of Congress or of the executive, and that does require a degree of independence,” he continued.
Vance shared his strong disagreement with that assessment.
