Judges are supposed to be dispassionate and neutral arbiters of the law, who keep their personal and political beliefs and opinions to themselves and out of their work, but that, unfortunately, is not always the case.

One example is D.C. District Judge Ana Reyes, who openly admitted during a Friday court hearing that she will "freak out" in the presence of firearms, even though the underlying case has little or nothing to do with guns, according to The Washington Times.

Notably, this is not the first time that Reyes, a 2022 appointee of former President Joe Biden, has injected her personal beliefs and opinions into her judicial work, which is a predictable outcome that at least one Republican senator warned would occur at the time of her confirmation.

Judge reveals anti-gun bias

On Friday, Judge Reyes presided over a hearing in the lawsuit filed by Washington D.C.'s attorney general to challenge President Donald Trump's emergency takeover of D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department, specifically the installation of an administrative overseer in the role of the department's chief.

At one point in the hearing, per the Times, Reyes attempted to consider a hypothetical situation in which she was the police chief but acknowledged that she was unable to do so and would never be in such a position because of her aversion to firearms.

"I freak out around guns," the judge told the courtroom.

In the end, according to USA Today, Reyes declined the request from D.C. officials to block Trump's takeover of the MPD, though she did express her skepticism that the president had the authority to install an interim police commissioner or require the department to seek federal permission to carry out its normal duties.

Instead, The Hill reported, the judge instructed both sides to discuss the matter and reach an agreement without her intervention, which prompted the Justice Department to step back, at least for now, from its attempt to install Drug Enforcement Agency head Terry Cole as the MPD's interim leader.

AG Bondi previously called for Reyes' removal from the bench

This is not the first time that Judge Reyes has exposed her personal biases while presiding over a case involving the Trump administration, as Fox News reported in February that she did exactly that amid a "fiery" outburst during a hearing over a challenge against President Trump's ordered ban on transgender troops in the U.S. military.

As part of an extended and angry rant against the DOJ attorney assigned to the case, Reyes accused Trump and other administration officials of displaying "unadulterated animus" toward transgender individuals, and proceeded to list roughly 30 different genders she believed existed while berating and chastising the government's lawyer.

Reyes later ruled to block Trump's order on transgender troops, which earned her a specific rebuke -- along with two other Democrat-appointed anti-Trump D.C. district judges, James Boasberg and Beryll Howell -- from Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to a Washington Examiner report in March.

"Many judges need to be removed, Judge Howell included, Judge Reyes, Judge Boasberg," Bondi said in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "These judges obviously cannot be impartial. They cannot be objective. They are district judges trying to control our entire country, and they are trying to obstruct Donald Trump's agenda."

Senator accurately predicted Reyes would be a "progressive," "activist" judge

Judge Reyes' partisanship should surprise no one, as it was preemptively called out by the Senate Judiciary Committee's then-ranking member, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), when the committee voted in August 2022 to approve the nominee that then-President Biden appointed to be the first Hispanic and first LGBTQ judge for the D.C. district court, according to Courthouse News.

Referencing her two decades of work as a private attorney for a big D.C. law firm, as well as the prior anti-gun litigation work of another judicial nominee under consideration, Grassley presciently proclaimed, "Both have a history of progressive litigation that raises concerns that they’ll be activists on the bench."