Ignore this entirely. Focus attention on substantive governance actions like the DOJ lawsuit against New Mexico, CDC sidelining during disease outbreak, or religious liberty commission recommendations—all of which involve actual policy mechanisms.
A Supreme Court justice giving a standard speech on judicial philosophy at a public event represents routine judicial outreach with zero governance harm. The statement 'judges must follow the letter of the law' is conventional textualist rhetoric without policy mechanism, institutional lever, or constitutional impact. This is pure noise—a speaking engagement reported as news.