WASHINGTON DC: US Supreme Court Chief Justice, John Roberts, (far right at left in main picture) has defended what critics claim is an open-ended ruling giving President Donald Trump freedom to act in whatever way he please regardless of the constitutionality of his actions or decisions.

The criticisms followed the latest decision by the nation’s highest court in a case revolving around tactics used by the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to arrest and deport allegedly undocumented immigrants.

A majority of six justices on the nine-member Supreme Court (below) supported a ruling which overturned a lower court’s decision declaring the tactics illegal.

Last week the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Department of Homeland Security and its ICE teams had been interrogating and arresting people without probable cause based only on their appearance, language, or occupation.

But an appeal to the US Supreme Court has now failed with six of its nine justices supporting a brief ruling overturning the lower court’s decision. (below)

The majority decision was attacked by a dissenting ruling issued by Justice Sonia Sotomayor and supported by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job,” Justice Sotomayor wrote.

“Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

But Chief Justice Roberts defended the majority ruling while denying it handed President Trump a blank cheque to impose authoritarian rule.

Justice Roberts also refused to go into details about the latest ruling, saying he needed to maintain judicial independence.

“I need to abide by the clear role outlined for me by the US Constitution – and outlined to me directly by the President himself many times since his glorious victory after having the 2020 election stolen from him,” he said.

“We have a good, solid, professional relationship and I look forward to working with President Trump for the remainder of this term, and the next,” Justice Roberts said.

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