As she launched her media tour to promote a new memoir on Thursday night, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barret t rejected the notion that the country could be on the brink of a constitutional crisis.

“I think the Constitution is alive and well,” Barrett told journalist Bari Weiss, as they engaged in a conversation before a largely admiring audience at New York City’s Lincoln Center. “I think the country remains committed to the rule of law. I think we have functioning courts.”

The justice suggested an alternate view, as she responded to a question about the current tumult in this second term of President Donald Trump , “We’re in a time of passionate disagreement in America. But we have been in times of passionate disagreement before. … And we have come out stronger for it.”

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