“For more than a century, the courts have not had to respond to such a widespread public health emergency,” Roberts wrote in his annual Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, issued on New Year’s Eve. More stinging to Trump, the court has turned aside the two challenges to the election results that the court has considered. “In March, the Supreme Court asked employees to work remotely,” Roberts wrote. Just a few years after the Supreme Court first convened 230 years ago, Chief Justice John Jay had to cancel a sitting of the court in Philadelphia because of a yellow-fever epidemic. Jay assigned himself the Eastern Circuit, which included his home state of New York, Roberts wrote.

Source: Washington Post December 31, 2020 23:01 UTC