To hear the Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices tell it, they are not partisan hacks. And it is unfair for anyone to suggest otherwise. “This Court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett insisted in a 2021 speech at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center, named after Senator Mitch McConnell. “Judicial philosophies are not the same as political parties.” The driving force here, as always, is those perfidious liberals in the media. “The media makes it sound as though you are just always going right to your personal preference,” Justice Clarence Thomas complained in 2021. That same year, Justice Samuel Alito complained about “unprecedented efforts to intimidate the court and to damage it as an independent institution”—in response to media coverage that properly identified the Court’s upholding a Texas abortion ban as a nullification of Roe v. Wade in the state and a preview of the overturning of Roe itself. As it turns out, the Court’s liberal critics aren’t the only ones who think the Court is made up of …