{"id":715,"date":"2026-05-19T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=715"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:05:34","slug":"justices-hint-at-strains-as-supreme-court-comes-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=715","title":{"rendered":"Justices hint at strains as Supreme Court comes under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Pennsylvania this month, Chief Justice John Roberts insisted that the public is misguided to think of Supreme Court justices as political actors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Florida last week, Justice Clarence Thomas, who has served since 1991, waxed poetic about his deep friendships with justices from an earlier era, saying there is nothing \u201cnegative\u201d about his relations with the newer crop of colleagues while acknowledging the court is now \u201cdifferent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And in Washington on Monday night, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized the court for disrupting its normal practices through quick-turn, often unexplained emergency orders and warned that the public loses confidence in the court when its decisions appear political.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As the justices have traveled the country this month for public appearances, a traditional part of the court\u2019s schedule after finishing oral arguments for the term, they have seemed intensely aware of a public debate about their relationships with one another and the court\u2019s own legitimacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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