Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Friday that “consistency breeds respect” when it comes to trust in the U.S. judicial system Friday, according to The Washington Post.
“Individual decisions do not need to be popular. … The losing party has to respect the decision,” Kavanaugh he said at a court conference on Friday, the Post reported.
“Consistency breeds respect,” Kavanaugh continued. “It means showing up every day in court and trying to be respectful to the parties, writing your opinion in a clear and understandable way, coming out when you are speaking and trying to explain the judicial process to the lawyer, trying to be transparent and impartial as a judge.”
A February CNN poll found that the majority of Americans do not trust the Supreme Court to make the “correct decisions” when it comes to legal cases related to the 2024 elections. When they were asked if they trusted the country’s highest court on this issue , 58 percent of respondents said “not at all” or “only some”. Eleven percent said they trusted the court “a lot” on the matter, and 35% said they trusted it “moderately.”
Kavanaugh too observed “Unpopular” decisions from previous iterations of the Supreme Court, stating that “and many of them are landmarks now that we accept as parts of the fabric of America and the fabric of American constitutional law,” according to the Associated Press.
He also said federal judges “stay as far away from politics as possible,” according to the AP.
“It’s an everyday thing. I don’t think it’s a ‘flip the switch’. It’s showing up in court every day and trying to respect the parties in a clear and understandable way,” continued Kavanaugh.
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