Chief Justice Roberts' Annual Report Focuses On COVID, Skips Trump And Controversy
In his report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice looks at all the ways federal courts remained open this year, comparing it to how courts handled other pandemics.
Chief Justice John Roberts Monday compared the often heroic efforts to keep the federal judiciary functioning this year to those employed by the nation's federal courts in 1790 and thereafter.
In his annual report on the federal judiciary, Roberts noted that the first Supreme Court justices had to conduct trials all over the country, even as an influenza outbreak was spreading. Chief Justice John Jay, upon arriving in Hartford, Conn., noted that "almost every
