Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett said Thursday she doesn’t think of herself as a “swing justice,” distancing herself from a label that court watchers have sometimes ascribed to her.

“A swing justice — that makes it sound like you sort of are swinging back and forth, and you can't make up your mind,” said Barrett, the most junior conservative justice.

“And that is not how my approach to judging,” she told the crowd gathered at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center for the inaugural SCOTUSBlog Summit: On The Merits.

President Trump’s third nominee to the court, Barrett has emerged as a key vote in several of the administration’s emergency appeals.

This summer, when the administration brought its pushback against diversity efforts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Barrett found herself in the middle.

Four of her conservative colleagues fully sided with the administration, while the three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts fully sided against........

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