Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett downplayed frantic talk of a US constitutional crisis under President Trump while sharing some “spicy” opinions of her own during a rare interview Thursday in Manhattan.

In a wide-ranging discussion with Free Press founder Bari Weiss, Barrett stressed the independence of federal courts and her “warm relationships” with other justices — but didn’t shy away when asked about her fiery take on a recent dissent opinion from Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“I personally tend not to be spicy for the sake of being spicy, but I am from New Orleans and everyone likes a little Tabasco sometimes,” said Barrett, a Louisiana native.

Asked whether she had any regrets about the tone she took, Barrett replied, “No.”

“We just disagreed about the scope of judicial power,” the justice said of her colleague’s opinion in Trump v. CASA, Inc., which centered on the Trump administration’s challenge to court injunctions against the president’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.

“I attack ideas. I don’t attack people,” added Barrett, a former clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia who was confirmed under President Trump in 2020. 

The associate justice was the subject of fierce attacks over her faith during the confirmation process, but she said in Thursday’s interview at the Lincoln Center that it helped sharpen her opinions.

“To be in this job, you have to not care,” she said bluntly. “You have to have a thick skin.”

“I do think Americans should trust that the court is trying to get it right,” she also said.

Asked later about the judges who have hampered the president’s executive authority with several nationwide injunctions, Barrett demurred and emphasized that “conflicts between the president and the judiciary are not new.”

“I don’t know what a constitutional crisis would look like. I don’t think that we are currently in a constitutional crisis, however,” she said. “I think our country remains committed to the rule of law. I think we have functioning courts.”

“This is a dance that we’ve seen before,” she added. “I think the Constitution is alive and well.”

The Trump administration has characterized the federal judiciary as “rogue” for the slew of injunctions halting executive actions from taking effect for a democratically elected president.

Critics of the administration have claimed his attacks on judges and at times failure to abide by court orders — which in at least one case earned a veiled rebuke from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts — are fomenting a constitutional crisis.

Barrett avoided siding with either side of the debate too sharply, saying, “Sometimes I think that the result that the law demands isn’t necessarily fair.”

“Thinking in those categories of left and right is just the wrong way to think about the law,” Barrett also explained.

The conversation comes as Barrett is on tour promoting her new book “Listening to the Law” before the Supreme Court starts its next term in October.