As one other Supreme Court docket time period begins, authorized junkies are tuning in on-line to pay attention dwell because the Justices wrestle with the heavy constitutional questions on their mahogany bench. However hit that pause button for a second to acknowledge this as a major transfer towards openness by the Court docket.
The livestream of oral arguments began as a Covid pandemic innovation, because the Justices left their marble courtroom in favor of grilling the 2 sides in every case by way of phone convention name. This time period, nevertheless, the Court docket is once more welcoming in-person spectators. Till final week, no one knew if this meant that the dwell web feed would go useless. Fortunately, no.