Here are the conservative justices Trump 'lost' in latest Supreme Court fight: CNN analyst

Here are the conservative justices Trump 'lost' in latest Supreme Court fight: CNN analyst
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Image via Screengrab / YouTube.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Image via Screengrab / YouTube.

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President Donald Trump's case before the Supreme Court didn't appear to go well with some of the conservative justices, one reporter told CNN.

While lower courts are dealing with the actual firing Trump's of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, the High Court on Wednesday held oral arguments on whether Cook can remain in her job while the case works its way through the system.

CNN host Dana Bash played one crucial audio clip from the oral arguments.

"Your position that there is no judicial review, no process required, no remedy available — very low bar for cause that the president alone determines — that would weaken if not shatter the independence of the Fed that we just discussed," Justice Brett Kavanaugh told Solicitor General D. John Sauer.

Bash commented, "I feel like when you have lost Brett Kavanaugh as a Republican president, you've kind of lost."

Phil Mattingly rattled off the names of the conservatives who don't appear to support the right of a president to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook for a mistake on her mortgage form.

"Likely I'll one-up you and say when you've lost Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and Justice [Neil] Gorsuch, all of whom had very skeptical questions of the solicitor general, John Sauer," said Mattingly.

"Now, let's be very clear, that doesn't necessarily mean they're going to rule one way or another," he continued. "But having listened to a number of Supreme Court arguments this year, the Trump administration has kept a lot of us busy on that front. It was, by far, I think, the most skeptical I've heard a large group of the conservative majority repeatedly over the course of the entire argument."

One CNN reporter remarked that a Trump administration official told her, "Doesn't seem like this is going well for us right now."

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