(CNN) Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg came to the defense of her more conservative colleagues on the bench Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. I can say that my two newest colleagues are very decent and very smart individuals she said Wednesday at an event in Washington D.C. hosted by Duke Law as she answered questions from Neil Siegel a law professor and one of her former law clerks. Now that the Supreme Court term has ended Ginsburg 86 has been pushing back against criticism of the court saying in a recent interview with NPR that the nine justices work well together and rebutted the idea that the Supreme Court is a partisan institution according to the news outlet.