SCOTUS recordings article

ABA Journal has Supreme Court still reluctant to allow livestreaming of opinion announcements

Opinion announcements and oral dissents make for high drama at the court. The court has been livestreaming its arguments since May 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic at first led to telephone arguments, and then continuously since the justices returned to the courtroom in the fall of 2021. But it has never offered live or timely access to the audio of opinion announcements.

The court has been recording its arguments and opinion announcements since 1955, with those recordings available to the public on the private Oyez.org website. But there are many gaps because of technological problems.