Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett acknowledged that the court lacks the power to enforce its rulings if the president chooses to disregard them.

“The Court lacks the power of the purse,” she said. “We lack the power of the sword.”

Barrett, 53, was nominated to the court by Donald Trump in 2020 to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She told host Ross Douthat during an interview for a New York Times podcast that the court could not compel the president to follow its rulings.

“We interpret the Constitution, we draw on precedents, we have these questions of structure, and we make the most with the tools that we have,” she said, after Douthat asked what they would do if a president refused to follow a Supreme Court ruling.

Throughout the interview, Barrett spoke about her preferre

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