By Andrew Chung

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected on Thursday the notion of a U.S. constitutional crisis as President Donald Trump’s far-reaching executive actions test legal boundaries and spark tension with the judiciary.

Amid hundreds of legal challenges, federal judges have frequently blocked or slowed numerous Trump policies, provoking harsh criticism from the president and his allies.

In March, Trump urged the impeachment of a judge hearing a deportation dispute, and at times legal scholars questioned whether his administration’s pushback against judicial orders amounted to outright defiance.

“I don’t think that we are currently in a constitutional crisis,” Barrett told listeners at New York’s Lincoln Center, adding that, in her vie

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