Justice Amy Coney Barrett complained of partisan perceptions of the Supreme Court. Yet she is on the Court to begin with to redeem Republican promises, as she did with the Texas abortion law, and was introduced by Mitch McConnell.
On one level, I suppose, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is as entitled as her senior colleague Stephen Breyer to talk sanctimoniously about the purity of heart that goes into every ruling and opinion by every member of that august bench. But the circumstances of Barrett’s remarks (as reported by the Associated Press) on the subject of the perception of the Supreme Court as partisan make them especially gag-inducing: “Barrett said the media’s reporting of opinions doesn’t capture the deliberative process in reaching those decisions. And she insisted that ‘judicial philosophies are not the same as political parties.’” On this last claim, it’s more than a little germane that Barrett was speaking at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center, the legacy institution of the hyperpartisan wire-puller who introduced her, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
