[Opinion] Reporters call for live-streaming opinion announcements

Press to High Court: Livestream Opinion Announcements

Reporters from the Supreme Court press corps sent a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts requesting that oral audio of the court’s opinions be livestreamed. The letter was sent on June 7, 2024, but was just publicly released on Wednesday as the letter has yet to receive a response from Roberts. The letter was signed by more than two dozen journalists and included signatories from all major radio and TV networks, in addition to other news outlets…

Reporters call for live-streaming opinion announcements

On June 7, 2024, a large group of reporters covering the Supreme Court (including this reporter) sent a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts, asking him to consider live-streaming the audio of the court’s opinion announcements. They have not received a response to the letter, which they are now publicly releasing. The letter appears below. (In an article we ran on June 3, Kit Beyer of Fix the Court also urged the justices to livestream opinion a…