Live Supreme Court Audio Should Be Permanent, Lawyers Say

The U.S. Supreme Court should make publicly available live audio a permanent feature of oral arguments, more than three dozen lawyers who’ve argued before the court said.

In a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday, 40 members of the Supreme Court bar urged the court to permanently extend live streaming that was adopted during the pandemic. They noted that the grandstanding concerns the justices previously worried about hadn’t occurred.

“Tens of thousands of Americans have come to understand the seriousness and the care with which you and your colleagues treat each case and each advocate who comes before ...