Justice Amy Coney Barrett bemoaned perceptions of the Supreme Court following an introduction by Mitch McConnell, who made the confirmation process hyperpartisan. ed_kilgore reports
Justice Amy Coney Barrett bewails perceptions of Court partisanship at the center named after Mitch McConnell, who introduced her. She was not struck by lightning. Photo: Timothy D Easley/AP/Shutterstock 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.
It’s also relevant that Barrett accepted two lifetime appointments to the federal judiciary from former President Donald Trump, the great scofflaw, who was more nakedly political and transactional in his treatment of judicial nominations than any president in history.
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