The Supreme Court Justices Really Are “A Bunch of Partisan Hacks”
Amy Barrett says Supreme Court justices must be “hyper vigilant” about their biases — less than four months after Barrett decided to participate in a major climate case against Shell Oil, the fossil fuel giant that employed her father for nearly three decades.
Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo in Washington, DC, 2021. (Erin Schaff / Getty Images)
War is peace, freedom is slavery, and the Supreme Court is a dispassionate nonpartisan branch of government free of bias — this is the Orwellian fable that Justice Amy Coney Barrett is now asking Americans to believe.
And Barrett is asking us to believe it not merely after the court’s wildly partisan ruling on abortion rights, but also just months after she promoted climate denialism to a national audience, and refused to recuse herself as she helped secure a legal victory for the fossil fuel giant that employed her father for decades.
This is a tale not just of cartoonish hypocrisy but also of deception — a frantic attempt to try to prevent more of the country from realizing the court is a corporate star chamber that has become one of the most powerful partisan weapons in American politics.
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