Justice of the Supreme Court Amy Coney Barrett
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“My goal today is to convince you that this court is not made up of a bunch of partisan pirates,” Barrett said during his remarks to a crowd gathered Saturday at the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, according to the Courier-Journal. “Judicial philosophies are not the same as political parties.”
Barrett, a Catholic and Conservative who has taught law at the University of Notre Dame, was introduced at the event by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
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Sometimes the Supreme Court can be unfairly portrayed as partisan or covered and comment on it unnecessarily divisively, Barrett argued.
“The media, along with Twitter’s most popular catches, report on results and decisions … This makes the decision seem results-oriented,” he said. “Let the reader judge whether the court was right or not, depending on whether they liked the results of the decision.”
“I don’t like the results of my decisions,” added the latest nominee to the high court, who said “it’s not my job to decide cases based on the outcome I want.”
A recent court ruling not to hear a challenge to a recently enacted abortion law in Texas has galvanized progressive court vigilantes and renewed the calls of some leftists for Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer will retire so he can be replaced during a democratic administration. Breyer, 83, has not indicated he plans to do so.
During Barrett’s Senate confirmation process last year, women’s rights advocates argued that their personal views on abortion could pose a risk to abortion rights in America and the important 1973 decision. Row v. Wade who established the right to abortion.
“I have an agenda to follow the rule of law and decide cases as they come up,” Barrett told a Senate court last fall.