“I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post at the time, referring to U.S. District Judge James Boasberg. “This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!” Roberts hit back just hours later.

Roberts made a rare public appearance in Buffalo, New York, to stress the importance of an independent judiciary and defended the Supreme Court's record of overturning several major decisions.