'Absurd': Chief Justice John Roberts insists judges don't carry out Trump's will

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts insisted that members of the court did not follow the ideology of the president who appointed them.

During a Tuesday discussion at Rice University, Roberts sought to dispel the notion that Justice Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett would defer to President Donald Trump because he nominated them.

"The notion that we carry forward the views of the people that appointed us is absurd," Roberts claimed. "President George W. Bush appointed me 20 — 20 years ago.