Amy Coney Barrett Says Supreme Court's Work Not Affected By Politics

• Sept. 13, 2021, 11:20 a.m. ET

Justice Amy Coney Barrett said connected Sunday that governmental partisanship plays nary relation successful determination making astatine the Supreme Court.

Speaking astatine the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center, successful Kentucky, Justice Barrett said that “judicial philosophies are not the aforesaid arsenic governmental parties.”

“To accidental the court’s reasoning is flawed,” she said, “is antithetic from saying the tribunal is acting successful a partisan manner.”

Her remarks came aft an instauration by Senator Mitch McConnell, the bulk leader, who helped recovered the center. Mr. McConnell was instrumental successful ensuring Justice Barrett’s rushed confirmation conscionable weeks aft the decease of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and weeks earlier President Donald J. Trump mislaid his bid for re-election.

The tribunal present has six Republican appointees and 3 Democratic ones.

Justice Barrett’s remarks, reported by The Associated Press, were accordant with those of different members of the tribunal who importune that partisan affiliations person thing to bash with their predominant splits on ideological lines. Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, has, for instance, made that constituent successful a caller publication and successful interviews promoting it.

Justice Barrett’s remarks followed a bid of caller rulings — connected asylum policy, the national eviction moratorium and a caller Texas termination instrumentality — successful which the court’s 3 justices who were appointed by Democratic presidents were successful dissent.