Federal judges bemoaned a partisan political environment in which some have labeled them as extensions of the presidents who appointed them. 'My boss is not my appointing president, my boss is the Constitution and the laws.'
In comments Saturday at a panel at William & Mary Law School, Judge Barrett backed Chief Justice John Roberts’s public statement last year that judges shouldn’t be seen as ideological mirrors of their patrons, which came after President Trump called a ruling that he opposed on immigration.
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