As judges face attacks from President Donald Trump, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. says government “doesn’t work if the judiciary is not independent.”

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday defended judicial independence as necessary to “check the excesses of the Congress or the executive," amid attacks on federal judges who have slowed President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts asserted that the judiciary must act independently of the other two branches, stressing its role to “check the excesses of Congress or the executive.” Roberts’s defense of an independent judiciary comes as President Donald Trump and his allies have accused federal judges of being partisan and acting purposefully against