Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday threw cold water on the GOP assertion that Judge Gorsuch will have an easier path to winning confirmation to the Supreme Court after privately calling President Trump’s condemnations of judges recent decisions “demoralizing” and “disheartening.”

Gorsuch, Schumer said, shared the same sentiment with him during their sit-down meeting earlier this week, but it wasn’t enough to prove that he could truly exercise independence from Trump when weighing the legality of his administration’s policies.