This morning, I attended oral argument in the tariff case. I was seated shortly after 9:00 a.m. and did not leave until nearly 12:45 p.m. As a result, for nearly four hours, I was completely immune to everything that was said on social media, on prediction marks, and in the press. It seems that shortly after Solicitor General John Sauer sat down, headlines started popping up with a consistent description: the Justices asked "skeptical" questions of the government. Indeed, I suspect these headlines were written formed before Neal Katyal finished his argument for the Respondents.

The live-streaming of oral arguments has been a welcome development. But perhaps one drawback is that people make their assessments of big cases before they are over. And once a narrative takes old, everyone seems

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