Chief Justice John Roberts is increasingly being targeted by the left, with the latest barrage arriving in the form of another leak of sensitive court documents.
The leaked documents, in which Roberts critiques a lower court ruling and employs the common court practice of seeking consensus in a future ruling, are being spun by the left – as well as complicit never-Trumpers – as the moderate-conservative George W. Bush appointee subverting court norms to do the bidding of Donald Trump.
The latest missive follows the bombshell leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade in May 2022. That leak was widely speculated to be an attempt to intimidate one or more justices to reverse their vote.
The Left has also lobbed attacks against Republican-appointed justices for alleged ethical violations while ignoring similar actions by Democrat-appointed justices.
In the now-leaked confidential memo sent in February by Roberts to his eight colleagues, the Chief Justice critiqued a lower court for greenlighting special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of Trump for allegedly seeking to overturn the election. He said the court “failed to grapple with the most difficult questions altogether.”
“I think it likely that we will view the separation of powers