Chief Justice's 2024 Annual Report

Chief Justice Roberts Issues 2024 Year-End Report -- Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., has issued his 2024 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary.

Law.com has Chief Justice Roberts Ends Year With Defense Against 'Illegitimate' Attacks on Judiciary --In his year-end report, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. warned that the judiciary has become a target for violence, intimidation, disinformation and defiance.

Roberts focused on the four areas of "illegitimate activity that, in my view, do threaten the independence of judges on which the rule of law depends: (1) violence, (2) intimidation, (3) disinformation, and (4) threats to defy lawfully entered judgments."

Bloomberg Law has Chief Justice Roberts Denounces Uptick in Threats Against Judges

“According to United States Marshals Service statistics, the volume of hostile threats and communications directed at judges has more than tripled over the past decade,” Roberts said.

Judicial security for the justices and other judges has been a major focus for both the judiciary and Congress in recent years. The government spending bill signed into law in late December included more than $25 million to provide around-the-clock protection of the justices’ homes.

The report also took aim at threats to ignore federal court rulings by elected officials, which Roberts said had recently come from “across the political spectrum.”

Judicial security for the justices and other judges has been a major focus for both the judiciary and Congress in recent years. The government spending bill signed into law in late December included more than $25 million to provide around-the-clock protection of the justices’ homes.

The report also took aim at threats to ignore federal court rulings by elected officials, which Roberts said had recently come from “across the political spectrum.”

The Wall St. Journal has Chief Justice Says Intimidation and Violence Threaten Judicial Independence -- But John Roberts’s year-end report remains silent on Supreme Court ethics

NLJ has Roberts Calls Court's Relationship With Congress 'Strained.' Who's to Blame? --The chief justice called out "public officials" for dangerous remarks about courts in his unusually targeted year-end report—and acknowledged a "strained relationship" between the Supreme Court and Congress.