Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer defended federal judges and backed up Chief Justice John Roberts's rare public statement this week after President Trump took aim at the judiciary.

"You decide what you think is correct in the law. Period," Breyer told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday. "You don't want a judge to be looking over his shoulder to public opinion."

Breyer, 86, retired from the court in 2022, paving the way for then-President Biden to appoint Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. He recently released a book about the Constitution and his approach to handling decisions, but his CNN interview coincided........

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