Ex-Trump lawyer predicts another 'rebuke' incoming from Supreme Court

President Donald Trump had a decidedly mixed day at the Supreme Court, suffering some major losses — and former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb thinks another huge one is coming down tomorrow on the last day of the court's term.

Specifically, he told CNN's Erin Burnett that he believes the court is about to deliver a "rebuke" of Trump's executive order abolishing birthright citizenship, and possibly a unanimous one.

"The mail-in ballot case, that was significant ... he is really upset about that," said Burnett. "Then there's a Lisa Cook case, which he also took a hit in, from the Fed, she obviously was Fed governor. So do you read anything into these?" She added that Trump is furious because "This is a Supreme Court where he thinks he stacked it with people who were going to rule in his favor."

Cobb agreed with this assessment. "Trump views this very transactionally — they're his people, they should vote his way. I mean that's his view of the world."

However, he added, today Chief Justice John Roberts and some of his right-wing colleagues chose to "call balls and strikes," in the words Roberts famously gave at his confirmation hearing, and "hold the center" in both the Mississippi case and the Fed case.

Meanwhile, he said, "Amy Coney Barrett, who wrote the Mississippi ballot case, is a conservative; she is a strong conservative, but she's also an intellectually honest person. And she wrote the decision in the way that she actually believes. I know they're livid about that. I know Steve Bannon, one of Trump's advisers, a convicted felon and Epstein confidante, has trashed her today, and that Trump is livid. But the reality is she did her job, and she should be proud of that."

As for what's coming next, said Cobb, "I would expect that Trump will be rebuked again on birthright citizenship."

"It should be unanimous," he added, because it's an "obvious" case — though Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas might still be loyal to Trump here.

The other outstanding cases, including on transgender athletes and campaign finance, could go Trump's way, said Cobb. Nonetheless, "On birthright citizenship, which I think is at the fundamental core of what it is to be an American, I think that the country will be proud tomorrow of the Supreme Court."

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