It must have been a frustrating interview for Associated Press Supreme Court and legal affairs reporter Mark Sherman. He was interviewing Justice Amy Coney Barrett about her new book and he could barely get a word out of her on the subject uppermost in his mind: President Donald Trump.

This frustration was reflected in the title of his AP story on Monday, "In new memoir, Supreme Court Justice Barrett reflects on historic cases, is largely silent on Trump."

Despite the fact that Trump was rarely mentioned in her book, Sherman tried to get Barrett to comment on the one who appears to be on his mind 24/7. Oh how he tried!

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett says “violence or threats of violence” against judges shouldn’t be the cost of public service.

But in an interview at the court with The Associated Press about her new book, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution, Barrett was not willing to join other judges who have called on President Donald Trump to tone down rhetoric demonizing judges.

Sherman's frustration over the lack of Trump references by Barrett in both her book and interview was expressed in the next section of his story under the heading of "Few mentions of Trump."

Barrett joined the court in 2020, just over a month after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and Trump chose Barrett to replace her. In her book, the Republican president gets just a few mentions, mainly in connection with her nomination and confirmation.

She dealt with the court’s 2024 decision that spared Trump from prosecution for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss without even using his name or explaining the decision.

“For example, when a former president was indicted — a historical first — the court took the case to decide whether he could be prosecuted for his official acts,” Barrett wrote. She joined most of Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority opinion.

Even as Barrett writes about political polarization across the country, she does not address what role Trump may have played in it. The book does not deal with events of his second term, which began in January, about when Barrett said she was wrapping up the writing.

Despite the fact that Trump is barely appears in her book, poor Sherman just can't let go as you can see in the heading name of his next section: "Some disagreement with the president."

Barrett wrote clearly on two topics that suggest some disagreement with the president. Trump signed an executive order last month requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag, despite a 1989 high court decision protecting the act as political speech.

After trying to squeeze this disagreement with Trump for all it was worth which was not much, Sherman appears to have given up his fruitless attempt to extract any more Trump out of Barrett.

But near the end, Sherman warned of the peril of Barrett and the "conservative supermajority." He lamented: "In a series of emergency orders this year, Barrett has mainly been in the majority to allow Trump to move ahead with plans to remake the federal government, even after lower-court judges have found some of his actions likely illegal."

Those lower-court judges trying to stop Trump.don't get an ideological label.