...Barrett belongs to a small religious group called People of Praise, which is mostly Catholic but also ecumenical and holds a patriarchal biblical view of the different natures and roles of the sexes. Because of this, a former member of People of Praise, Maura Sullivan, wants Barrett out, saying, “I don’t believe that someone in her position, who is a member of this group, could put those biases aside.”
...what does the accusation of bias and prejudice say about the Left and Sullivan? First, it draws attention to the fact that Sullivan, a bisexual woman who was repudiated at 19 by her parents, is almost certainly allowing her own scarred past to influence her judgment. She is actually doing what she accuses Barrett of being likely to do.
It also highlights the Left’s insistence that courts cannot but be, indeed must be, influenced by a judge’s politics and personality. For the Left, the personal is always political, which is why its partisans demand judges be chosen for qualities other than the merits of their jurisprudence. They want black judges and female judges to make courts representative, even though representation is the role of legislatures — think House of Representatives — and the judiciary’s role is simply to apply the law. That is, apply the law as written, not as they would prefer it to be....