Appearing on Fox News to continue the publicity blitz for her " studiously bland" memoir, Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett began laying the groundwork for her upcoming 2028 opinion requiring states to let Donald Trump run for a third term notwithstanding the whole "Constitution" thing. Brett Baier, the Andy Cohen of this Real Justices of Washington D.C. production, asked Barrett specifically about the Twenty-Second Amendment's bar on Trump's possible First Consul for Life bid.
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.
