Chief Justice Roberts Defends Federal Judiciary After Trump Slam!

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday defended the federal judiciary in a rare rebuke of comments from President Trump, saying there are no “Obama judges” as the president had claimed.

“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” Roberts said in a statement distributed by the Supreme Court. “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them."

He went on to say an “independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for."

The statement, coming one day before Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, marks the first time Roberts, the head of the federal judiciary, has pushed back against comments from the president.