Amy Coney Barrett Claims There’s Nothing Unprecedented About Trump’s ‘Conflicts’ With The Judiciary

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett expressed a lack of concern over President Donald Trump and his combative stance toward the judicial branch of the government in a forum held by The Free Press.

Forum host Bari Weiss said on Thursday, “In March, [Fox News anchor] Laura Ingraham asked the president if he would defy a court order going forward, and this is what he said: ‘No, you can’t do that. However, we have bad judges. We have very bad judges. And these are judges that shouldn’t be allowed…I think at a certain point you have to look at, what do you do when you have a rogue judge?”

Both the audience and Barrett laughed.

“Has the president ever spoken like that about the judicial system in this country?” Weiss continued. “An American president?”

“Let’s see, so, conflicts between the president and the judiciary are not new,” Barrett said. “They existed between Andrew Jackson and the Supreme Court. Even Abraham Lincoln, you know, there was some conflict. There was some conflict between FDR and the Supreme Court. So, I think that — when we talk about the separation of powers and the balance of power and there being a tug and a pull between the branches of government — this is a dance that we’ve seen before.”

Barrett, who was nominated by Trump to the Supreme Court in 2020, has come under fire from conservatives who oppose some of her more recent decisions.

The conservative justice sided with liberals Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor on a case in March that rejected Trump’s effort to rescind a lower court order to pay out $2 billion in foreign aid, according to ABC News. Barrett also joined the liberals in part “in dissenting over an order that tossed out the appeal of Venezuelan detainees sent to El Salvador in defiance of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg” in April.

The following month, conservative Fox News host Mark Levin blasted Barrett over comments she made during oral arguments about birthright citizenship, saying she didn’t understand the role of the courts.

Watch the clip above via The Free Press.