Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is defending her role as an occasional swing vote in the court’s formidable conservative bloc.

In an interview with USA Today published on Monday, Barrett, 53, maintained that she is “nobody’s justice,” and that includes President Donald Trump. If Trump were to phone Barrett, she said she “might wonder if he had the wrong number,” Barrett joked to the outlet.

However, Barrett said that she doesn’t like to be called a “swing voter.”

“Swing, I think, implies indecisiveness. You just kind of blow back and forth,” she said. “And that’s not how I approach the law at all.”

Barrett sat down for the interview as she made the rounds promoting her memoir, slated to be published on Sept. 9, Listening to the Law, which celebrates the court’s overturning of

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