During a speech at the University of Louisville Sunday night, US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said that she’s worried the public believes the Court’s decisions are tainted by the personal political beliefs of the individual justices, a perception she wants to dispel, according to Politico.
Justices must be “hyper vigilant to make sure they’re not letting personal biases creep into their decisions, since judges are people, too,” Barrett said at the lecture. Barrett was appoint to the Court one month after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, a move the critics of Republican Senator Mitch McConnell decried as hypocritical because he blocked for more than a year the nomination of Merrick Garland.
Saying “judicial philosophies are not the same as political parties,” Barrett said. “To say the court’s reasoning is flawed is different from saying the court is acting in a partisan manner. I think we need to evaluate what the court is doing on its own terms.”