In Year-End Report, Chief Justice Roberts Addresses Threats to Judges' Safety

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Affirmative action.
65% : Chief Justice Roberts recounted the bravery of a judge in 1957, three years after a unanimous Supreme Court ruled in Brown that segregated public schools violated the Constitution.
48% : After a series of judicial bombshells in June that included eliminating the right to abortion, a Supreme Court dominated by conservatives returns to the bench -- and there are few signs that the court's rightward shift is slowing.
48% : The Supreme Court is reviewing a request from 19 Republican-led states to keep in place the pandemic-era policy that has been used to block migrants from seeking asylum in the United States.
44% : A Clash of Rights: In a case over gay rights and free speech, the justices appear ready to rule in favor of a Christian web designer who says she has a First Amendment right to refuse service to same-sex couples.
43% :The chief justice did not draw an explicit connection to the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision in June in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had established a constitutional right to abortion.
42% : The justices heard an appeal from a web designer who objects to providing services for same-sex marriages in a case that pits claims of religious freedom against laws banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.
38% :Some observers had hoped that the chief justice would use his year-end report for an update on the investigation announced in May into the leak of a draft opinion eliminating the constitutional right to abortion.

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