It's always unwise to predict the outcome of a U.S. Supreme Court case based solely on what happened during oral arguments. So let's go ahead and attempt it anyway.

I tuned in to yesterday's high-stakes oral arguments over President Donald Trump's tariffs, expecting to find Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito signaling their strong support for the president's broad claims of executive power. And that's exactly what Thomas and Alito did: We can expect them to vote for Trump.

Along similar lines, I expected Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ketanji Brown Jackson to signal their strong opposition to Trump's position. And that's exactly what they signaled, too. We can expect them to vote for the legal challengers.

But I wasn't so sure about what to expect from the remaining f

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