The Supreme Court has been reshaped by the three justices nominated by President Donald Trump, including Kavanaugh. It's an institution of law not of politics, not of partisanship,” Kavanaugh said at a judicial conference in Minnesota, in the first public remarks by a justice since the court recessed for the summer late last month. Supreme Court decisions this term as he sought Thursday to dispel notions that it is partisan, even after conservatives brought about the end of affirmative action in college admissions and struck down President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief program. – Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed to the mixed U.S.