U.S. Supreme Court will resume opinion announcements from the bench, but won’t provide live audio

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The Supreme Court will resume its pre-pandemic practice of announcing opinions from the bench, the court’s Public Information Office said on Monday afternoon. But although the justices now provide live audio of oral arguments, the opinion announcements will not be livestreamed. Instead, consistent with the court’s pre-pandemic practice, the audio of opinion announcements will not be available until the beginning of the following term.

The resumption of in-person opinion announcements marks another step in the court’s slow return to business as usual since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.

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