Chief justice unsettled by Obama’s criticism of Supreme Court

LA Times: “‘To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, I’m not sure why we are there,’ Roberts said at the University of Alabama School of Law . . . ‘Anybody can criticize the Supreme Court. . . . I have no problem with that,’ he said. He objected to criticism in such a public setting, where the justices had no choice but to sit silently.”