Kavanaugh Says US Supreme Court a ‘Team of Nine’ in Casework

US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh emphasized collegiality over conflict among his colleagues in public remarks just weeks after they wrapped up another momentous term.

Speaking at the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference in Bloomington, Minnesota, on Thursday, Kavanaugh said the court is “an institution of law not of politics.”

He noted the election law cases this term as examples of how the court has decided issues based on the law rather than “partisan affiliation” or “partisanship” and stressed there aren’t partisan divisions in how the justices conduct their work.

“We don’t caucus in separate rooms,” he said. “We don’t meet ...