Washington — Justice Amy Coney Barrett spoke with CBS News senior correspondent Norah O'Donnell for her first television interview since joining the Supreme Court in October 2020, responding to criticism that the Supreme Court is allowing President Trump to expand the bounds of executive power and discussing the attacks waged on the federal judiciary.

Selected by President Trump to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, Barrett's appointment to the high court widened its conservative majority to 6-3. At 53, she is likely to serve for decades.

So far in her tenure on the Supreme Court, Barrett has been in the majority in landmark decisions overturning Roe v. Wade , ending affirmative action in higher education, and

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