I'm Elizabeth Slattery and I'm Tiffany Bates and welcome to SCOTUS 101 where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to and other things related to our favorite branch of government.

This week we're talking with the Wall Street Journal Supreme Court correspondent Jess Braven and discussing whether Justice Kennedy will in fact retire.

We hope everyone had a great

Fourth of July. Justice Gorsuch certainly had an interesting one. He returned home to Colorado

to ride in a parade where he was met with many cheers, but also a few protests that one newspaper

reported protesters held signs and shouted things at Gorsuch about the U.S. Constitution.

I would love to know what they were shouting at him.

Me too.

So anyway, before we get into our interview today with Jess Braven, we'd like to salute Lyle

Deniston, the dean of the Supreme Court press.

He's retired after covering the court for 58 years.

He worked for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Star, which is no longer in existence,

the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Globe, Scotus Blog, and most recently the National Constitution

Center's Constitution Daily.

When he was the lead reporter for Scotus blog, the hashtag, Waiting for Lyle, would trend

on Twitter on decision days as people tuned into the site's live blog and waited

for word from Lyle about which opinions would be released. When Lyle began working this beat,

Earl Warren, Felix Frankfurter, and Hugo Black sat on the court. The court had recently decided

the school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, and Chief Justice Roberts

was only three years old.

In an interview with the New York Times, Lyle said that in his six decades covering the court,

the only decision that really surprised him was the D.C. versus Heller decision when the court

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