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Chief Justice John Roberts shunned by his neighbors as backlash over Trump rulings grows
What happened
RawStory reports that Chief Justice John Roberts has become socially isolated and publicly protested around his longtime summer home near Port Clyde, Maine. Residents interviewed by The New York Times linked the backlash chiefly to the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade and Roberts’s 2024 majority opinion granting Donald Trump broad immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts.
Some neighbors have withdrawn socially, while demonstrators gather offshore and on the town dock. Roberts declined to comment. The conflict escalated when his friend Kevin…
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