Barrett: High Court 'should not be imposing its own values on the American people'

Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a new interview hit back at critics who say the Supreme Court's conservative majority could ultimately ban gay marriage or make other monumental changes after it upended a long-standing ruling on abortion rights in 2022.

"It's not just an opinion poll about whether the Supreme Court thinks something is good or whether the Supreme Court thinks something is bad," Barrett told CBS News's Norah O’Donnell in her first TV interview since joining the Supreme Court in 2020. "What the court is trying to do is see what the American people have decided."

"The Court should not be imposing its own values on the American people — that's for the democratic process," she added.

Barrett's full interview will air on "CBS Sunday Morning" this weekend ahead of the release of he