Nina Totenberg

Whose house do they live in?

Justice Barrett also questioned the practicality of the Trump plan.

Well, the ACLU's Cecilia Wong had a lot easier time.

After all, every judge to have examined the Trump policy has found it to be unconstitutional.

But she was really on her game yesterday as she told the court.

What do you think is on the justices' minds?

Well, it looked to me as though Justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito were leaning towards the Trump administration position, no guarantees.

But as for the other four conservatives and three liberals, they sort of seem to me to be leaning the other way.

I cover the Supreme Court and justice.

I'm Nina Totenberg, and I cover the Supreme Court.

And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

Hi there.

Well, you know, with the President of the United States, for the first time ever, as far as we know, in the courtroom and sitting in the audience, I thought the court actually went out of its way to not beat the crap out of any of the counsel and to ask very probing questions without completely tipping their hands.

At the same time, you heard this constant refrain of,

This is pretty clearly what the Constitution says.

I know it has problems today, policy problems, but it is what the Constitution says, and that is sort of the way the court

Because this is a very originalist court, it doesn't think it's a living constitution.

And in the same way, it believes, for example, that there are quite severe restrictions on what kinds of regulations there can be.

of firearms, of guns.

And that's the second amendment to the Constitution, but it's also an amendment to the Constitution, much like the 14th Amendment was an amendment to the Constitution.