Some of the most memorable moments from the U.S. Supreme Court’s official proceedings are the ones that the justices seem least interested in making public. They are the often dramatic, sometimes funny, always instructive occasions when justices announce from the bench, in summary form, the opinions of the court.
The court makes the actual opinions public almost instantaneously online. But the audio of the opinion announcements takes months to see the light of day, even though the court makes the audio of oral arguments available to the public at the end of the week in which they occur.
