U.S. Chief Justice Roberts: Judicial Freedom Is Key To Checking Congress, Prez

Amid attacks on federal judges who have slowed President Donald Trump's agenda, Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday defended judicial independence as necessary to "check the excesses of the Congress or the executive."

- Associated Press

NEW YORK:

"Judicial independence is crucial," Roberts, the leader of the Supreme Court and the entire federal judiciary, said at a gathering of judges and lawyers in his hometown.

He described the creation of three co-equal branches of government as the Constitution's one innovation. "That innovation doesn't work if the judiciary is not independent," he said.