Justice Barrett basically admits SCOTUS can do nothing if Trump violates rulings

In a recent interview with The New York Times, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett conceded that the high court would be incapable of enforcing its own rulings if the Trump administration openly defied orders that interfered with the president's political agenda.

"[T]he court lacks the power of the purse," she told columnist Ross Douthat during an interview for his podcast. "We lack the power of the sword. And so, 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."

The answer came after a more in-depth discussion about whether and how much the justices take the current legal landscape and political zeitgeist into account in the reasoning behind their rulings. Douthat noted that it is curre