It's quite out of character, but the court will supply a live audio feed of upcoming arguments for anyone who wants to listen
An extremely old-school place. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic has had a way of making the supposedly impossible inevitable. The Supreme Court, having delayed several of its April oral arguments, said Monday that some of them would be heard via telephone conference over a few days in May. Those cases include three that relate to President Trump’s financial records and two involving a conflict between religious liberty claims and civil rights.
For the notoriously technophobic Supreme Court, this would be a monumental change, since the place has traditionally been long on ceremony and short on accessibility. To hear oral arguments, the public can either wait in line — for big cases, this can involve sleeping bags on the sidewalk — for a share of 250 seats, or wait for a transcript or audio to be posted, which can take days. Members of the Supreme Court bar also have to line up for first-come, first-served seats.
It’s hard to say any of this serves the public’s interest in understanding the nation’s most powerful court, and yet the justices have long been united, at least publicly, in insisting that shunning cameras or even live audio keeps the court above the cheapening fray. Justice Elena Kagan even claimed last year that she and her colleagues hadn’t even discussed the possibility of allowing cameras in the near-decade she’d been on the court.
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