Following the Court&#8217;s decision not to stay a Texas &#8220;heartbeat&#8221; bill that effectively outlaws abortion after fetal cardiac activity can be detected, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett fired back at critics of the Supreme Court, telling a crowd gathered for the opening of the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville that the Supreme Court is not packed with &#8220;partisan hacks.&#8221;
&#8220;In 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’t believe the highest court in the land is politically driven,&#8221; 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>.
“My goal today is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,” Justice Barrett said in her remarks. “Judicial philosophies are not the same as political parties.&#8221;
Barrett then tried to draw a comparison between &#8220;originalism,&#8221; which she says is her judicial philosophy, and Justice Stephen Breyer&#8217;s preferred method of legal interpretation, &#8220;pragmatism,&#8221; and cautioned interpreting the court&#8217;s decisions through the lens of political ideology.
“To say the court’s reasoning is flawed is different from saying the court is acting in a partisan manner,” Barret said. “I think we need to evaluate what the court is doing on its own terms.”
&#8220;The media, along with hot takes on Twitter, report the results and decisions,&#8221; Barrett said. &#8220;That makes the decision seem results-oriented. It leaves the reader to judge whether the court was right or wrong, based on whether she liked the results of the decision.&#8221;
&#8220;And here&#8217;s the thing: Sometimes, I don&#8217;t like the results of my decisions. But it&#8217;s not my job to decide cases based on the outcome I want,&#8221; she added.
Barrett&#8217;s explanation closely follows criticism she and other justices who elected not to weigh in on Texas&#8217; abortion regulations &#8212; and a subsequent decision not to stay the law before it went into effect &#8212; particularly from leftists, that the Court was falling along political lines and that the Court&#8217;s conservatives were using their positions to outlaw abortion absent a legislative effort.
Barrett was asked about the abortion cases specifically but noted that it was &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; 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, <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.
Justices, Barrett said, are “hyper vigilant to make sure they’re not letting personal biases creep into their decisions, since judges are people, too.&#8221;
Democrats have blasted Barrett, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and even Justice Breyer in the wake of the Supreme Court&#8217;s 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 &#8212; 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.
Breyer has, so far, resisted those calls.
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Leftists turned on the feminist hero and women&#8217;s rights crusader, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, after the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, refused to block the implementation of Texas&#8217; &#8220;heartbeat bill&#8221; on September 1st, effectively banning most abortions after fetal cardiac activity can be detected.
&#8220;The Supreme Court was careful not to weigh in on the constitutionality of the Texas law, deciding its ruling on procedural grounds. The Texas law contains a unique enforcement mechanism that authorizes private citizens to sue abortion providers and those who &#8216;aid and abet&#8217; illegal abortions,&#8221; The Daily Wire noted Thursday.
&#8220;The court dismissed the request, which names every state court judge and clerk as defendants, based on procedural grounds,&#8221; the outlet continued.
“It is unclear whether the named defendants in this lawsuit can or will seek to enforce the Texas law against the applicants in a manner that might permit our intervention,” the majority justices said in their ruling. “The State has represented that neither it nor its executive employees possess the authority to enforce the Texas law either directly or indirectly. Nor is it clear whether, under existing precedent, this Court can issue an injunction against state judges asked to decide a lawsuit under Texas’s law.”
Key to the ruling was Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who sits in the seat Ginsburg vacated when she died.
At the time, leftists were quick to blame Ginsburg for the addition, which shifted the court to the right, because Ginsburg was given the opportunity to retire under a Democrat &#8212; then-President Barack Obama &#8212; and chose to remain on the court. After several difficult battles with cancer, Ginsburg died in September of 2020, and then-President Donald Trump quickly replaced her with Barrett.
Now, they&#8217;re taking aim at Ginsburg, yet again.
&#8220;In retrospect, maybe Ruth Bader Ginsburg should have stepped down from the Court in 2014,&#8221; one leftist commentator sneered.
&#8220;Ruth Bader Ginsburg really, really should have stepped down,&#8221; another added. &#8220;When you are a leader of people, with their lives in your hands… you have to do what’s best for them, always. She didn’t.&#8221;
When she was offered the opportunity to step down, she was 80 and Democrats had a comfortable majority in the Senate, allowing Obama to replace her with a dedicated liberal justice and without Republican input.
&#8220;Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s categorical refusal to retire brought us here. So thanks you old dead white bitch,&#8221; sniffed a self-described &#8220;feminist&#8221; who later deleted her tweet.
&#8220;Folks blaming Bernie for what happened in Texas are ridiculous,&#8221; a former Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) surrogate snapped after leftists tried to pin the blame on Sanders and his supporters, who refused to back then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016. &#8220;Did y’all not remember the time when we there was a democrat in office and had the chance the tell Ruth Vader Ginsburg to retire but didn’t? Stop it. The establishment needs to take responsibility for their mess.&#8221;
The same leftists are now pushing Justice Stephen Breyer to resign and allow President Joe Biden to appoint his own replacement so that what happened with Ginsburg does not happen again. Breyer did not step down after the Supreme Court&#8217;s last term, likely because the Court is about to hear landmark cases on subjects like abortion in its 2021-2022 session.
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