Standing directly in front of the man who expedited her nomination in the waning days of the Trump era, Justice Barrett argued yesterday that the Supreme Court is not a partisan institution, and that the public doesn’t understand the difference between politics and judicial philosophy.
Tell that to Justice Garland. I’m surprised Mitch didn’t burst out laughing.
To reiterate, it is true that most of the Supreme Court’s business is not partisan in a narrow sense, and that differences in jurisprudence matter, even among the members of the right-wing majority. It is also true, however, that the GOP has very clear positions on culture war issues, that these issues are often decided by the Supreme Court, and that Barrett was put on the Court specifically for the purpose of deciding the issues in favor of the GOP. To deny that the Court is a partisan institution at this point is to be willfully blind.