Overview

• Justice Amy Coney Barrett said her pointed language responding to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in the universal‑injunctions case was warranted and that she “set the calibration right.”
• Barrett reiterated support for her June majority opinion in Trump v. CASA limiting lower courts’ use of nationwide injunctions, a dispute that stemmed from litigation over the administration’s effort to curb birthright citizenship enforcement.
• In a public conversation with Bari Weiss at Lincoln Center, Barrett stressed respect for Jackson, saying, “I attack ideas, I don’t attack people.”
• She rejected claims that the country is in a constitutional crisis, calling the Constitution “alive and well” and characterizing executive–judicial tensions as “a dance that we’ve seen before.”
• Recent reporting casts Barrett as a key swing vote who will be closely watched as challenges to President Trump’s policies arrive in the new term.