{"id":747563,"date":"2021-09-13T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=747563"},"modified":"2021-09-13T11:35:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:35:56","slug":"justice-amy-coney-barrett-fires-back-at-scotus-critics-were-not-just-a-bunch-of-partisan-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-amy-coney-barrett-fires-back-at-scotus-critics-were-not-just-a-bunch-of-partisan-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Amy Coney Barrett Fires Back At SCOTUS Critics: We\u2019re Not Just A Bunch Of \u2018Partisan Hacks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjustice-amy-coney-barrett-fires-back-at-scotus-critics-were-not-just-a-bunch-of-partisan-hacks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=747563&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1279999124-scaled-e1622807944295.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett fired back at critics of the Supreme Court who claimed, following the Court\u2019s decision not to stay a Texas \u201cheartbeat\u201d bill that effectively outlaws abortion after fetal cardiac activity can be detected, telling a crowd gathered for the opening of the&nbsp;McConnell Center at the University of Louisville, that the Supreme Court is not packed with \u201cpartisan hacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the wake of a controversial decision on abortion rights, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told a crowd of more than 100 here that she doesn\u2019t believe the highest court in the land is politically driven,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/politics\/mitch-mcconnell\/2021\/09\/12\/justice-amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-decisions-arent-political\/8310849002\/\">Louisville Courier-Journal reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,\u201d Justice Barrett said in her remarks.&nbsp;\u201cJudicial philosophies are not the same as political parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barrett then tried to draw a comparison between \u201coriginalism,\u201d which she says is her judicial philosophy, and Justice Stephen Breyer\u2019s preferred method of legal interpretation, \u201cpragmatism,\u201d and cautioned interpreting the court\u2019s decisions through the lens of political ideology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say the court\u2019s reasoning is flawed is different from saying the court is acting in a partisan manner,\u201d Barret said. \u201cI think we need to evaluate what the court is doing on its own terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe media, along with hot takes on Twitter, report the results and decisions,\u201d Barrett said. \u201cThat makes the decision seem results-oriented.&nbsp;It leaves the reader to judge whether the court was right or wrong, based on whether she liked the results of the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd here\u2019s the thing: Sometimes, I don\u2019t like the results of my decisions. But it\u2019s not my job to decide cases based on the outcome I want,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett\u2019s explanation closely follows criticism she and other justices who elected not to weigh in on Texas\u2019 abortion regulations \u2014 and a subsequent decision not to stay the law before it went into effect \u2014 particularly from leftists, that the Court was falling along political lines and that the Court\u2019s conservatives were using their positions to outlaw abortion absent a legislative effort.<\/p>\n<p>Barrett was asked about the abortion cases specifically but noted that it was \u201cinappropriate\u201d to discuss cases that could end up in front of the Supreme Court, even if those cases have already resulted in a petition for an emergency stay or a plea for immediate relief,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/barrett-concerned-about-public-perception-supreme-court-n1279042?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">according to NBC News<\/a>. She did, however, say that Supreme Court Justices are cognizant that their personal biases can factor into their decisions, and that they must absent themselves from their own individual preferences and political beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Justices, Barrett said, are \u201chyper vigilant to make sure they\u2019re not letting personal biases creep into their decisions, since judges are people, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have blasted Barrett, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and even Justice Breyer in the wake of the Supreme Court\u2019s decision not to pre-emptively block the Texas abortion law from going into effect. Breyer, who is reaching an advanced age and is the most senior leftist member of the Court, is facing calls to resign and allow President Joe Biden to appoint a successor before the midterm elections in 2022 \u2014 a situation that would help avoid a repeat of what happened when the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed, leaving a hole in the court.<\/p>\n<p>Breyer has, so far, resisted those calls.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett fired back at critics of the Supreme Court who claimed, following the Court\u2019s decision not to stay a Texas \u201cheartbeat\u201d bill that effectively outlaws &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}