There’s a roster of cases before the Supreme Court that could reshape the entire Trump presidency and redefine executive power. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, my guest last week on my Times Opinion podcast, “Interesting Times,” is likely to be the decisive vote in some of these cases.

Unfortunately but predictably, that means that she couldn’t or wouldn’t respond to my most direct questions about the Trump administration.

But my goal was to push Barrett on a question that she can answer, one that she addresses at length in her new book, “Listening to the Law.” I wanted to know whether her preferred legal theory, originalism, bends in response to prudential and political concerns.

Barrett believes strongly that it shouldn’t, that justices should rule without worrying about political pressure

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