To many judges, these attacks no doubt spur fears that some Trump loyalists will threaten them or worse. Trump’s attacks have stirred up some horrific threats. In his 2025 year-end report, Roberts bewilderingly failed to include a single word about Trump’s more frequent and more venomous attacks against judges. After Trump’s diatribe on Friday, Roberts and the other supreme court justices must be thinking: first they came for district court judges in Washington. And now – with us on the supreme court uttering hardly a peep about Trump’s vicious treatment of lower court judges – they’re coming for us.

Source: The Guardian February 24, 2026 19:01 UTC