Justice Breyer: Politics Never Sway Supreme Court

Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that politics plays less of a role in Supreme Court decisions than many in the public think.

“When you put on the robes, you take off the politics,” Breyer, sitting alongside fellow Justice Antonin Scalia, said during a hearing.

The committee members’ questions varied from types of cases heard to whether or not supreme court cases should be videotaped for public consumption.

To the later question, proposed by Senator Blumenthal (D-CT), Scalia responded that despite the argument that the videos would educate the people, he believed most people would only see a 30 second tape that “would not be representative of what we do.”