00:00Greg, after hearing these arguments and the justices' responses, what's your sense of where the justices are leaning on this case as a body or individually?
00:11It sure seemed like, and not just a five justice majority, but a larger majority, was really concerned about the prospect of what it would mean if the court sided with Donald Trump and let him fire her at least right away.
00:27And they were, as I think I said earlier, in no rush to do that.
00:31What seems like the big question now, is the court going to issue a narrow ruling that just kicks the can down the road a little bit and maybe it comes back to them, a ruling maybe that says, hey, she's got to have some sort of opportunity to be heard before you fire her?
00:45Or do they do something broader that says allegations of these sort are not the kind of things that let a president remove a Fed governor?
00:54That would give much deeper protection for Fed governors going forward.
01:00That would be a very big deal.
01:02Whether the court is ready to go there yet, that's not clear.
01:06I mean, as you were listening, you mentioned there's this sort of deeper sense of unanimity here among many of the justices.
01:14Were there any responses or questions that stood out to you, Greg, that give us a sense or a hint as to how they might rule, not just, you know, yes or no, but how narrow or broad that ruling might be?
01:26Yeah.
01:26So Justice Kavanaugh, whom Amera was talking about, was certainly a key justice.
01:31We normally think of him as one of the conservatives.
01:34He was pretty clear he was on Lisa Cook's side in this case, very concerned about Fed independence.
01:39And so the question was, with Kavanaugh and the court's three liberals, who would be the fifth vote?
01:47And in discussing near the end of the case, he threw out the possibility of the court just issuing that very narrow ruling that I alluded to,
01:56just something that said that Donald Trump cannot fire her right now, just denying his application for a stay,
02:05and essentially letting the case play out in the lower courts.
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