Amy Coney Barrett says Supreme Court justices aren't "partisan hacks"

Washington — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett argued Sunday that decisions by the high court aren't driven by political views and said she and her colleagues on the court are not a "bunch of partisan hacks," according to reports.

Barrett told an audience at a lecture hosted by the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville that her goal in the speech "is to convince you that this court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks," the Courier Journal reported. "Judicial philosophies are not the same as political parties," she said, according to the Courier Journal, noting that the court is guided by those judicial philosophies, not political views.