“I have watched over 400 Supreme Court arguments. I have done 50 myself. I would tell you, this argument did not go well for the Trump challengers and that’s to put it mildly. I probably have some other adjectives I won’t say on air. The thing I was watching for was any indication anywhere about just how dangerous a ruling to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court was. We heard a lot from the court, particularly the chief justice, Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Alito, about how if you affirm the Colorado decision, it will empower states to mess with federal elections. And to be sure, that’s a risk,” [Neil] Katyal said. ...

“I saw only one justice really, Justice Sotomayor, who was really listening to what the Colorado challengers were saying. It wouldn’t shock me if even she, when push came to shove and she reads the transcript of this argument, may come the other way. Now the justices could go back, they could read all friend of the court briefs, which make a lot of these points and come up with the other side. Presumably, they read those before the argument today and they got no help to use Justice Alito’s word, no help from the challengers to Trump today in the oral argument.”