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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mary Papenfuss

Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts lays down the law on judiciary power in veiled swipe at Trump

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in remarks Wednesday emphasized the vital importance to the nation of an independent judiciary in what appeared to be a thinly veiled swipe at Donald Trump, though he didn’t mention the president’s name.

The judiciary’s role, Roberts emphasized in comments at a public event in Buffalo, New York, is to “decide cases but, in the course of that, check the excesses of Congress or the executive.”

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