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 about a couple of speeches the justices gave some new opinions and we'll interview Adam Feldman of empirical SCOTUS.

So Tiffany, did you see the news about the Florida Supreme Court?

I did not. What are they doing?

Exciting, exciting times. They're going to broadcast their arguments on Facebook Live starting next month.

What? That's hilarious.

So shout out to our friends at Fix the Court. I'm sure they are very pleased since they've been trying to get cameras in courtrooms across America.

This is a new bold step into Facebook for the Florida Supreme Court.

I can just, I'm imagining now just like everyone in Fix the Court, just going around the country and holding their iPhone up to record, you know,

these courtroom sessions for Facebook Live.

It'll be interesting to see what sort of comments and questions that they get on Facebook during the arguments.

Yeah, are they going to take questions?

Question from the audience here.

Yeah.

So in a news story about the Facebook live streaming, I also read that the Florida Supreme Court has its own podcast. Apparently, it's called Beyond the Bench. But I took a look in iTunes and I couldn't find it. But I did find a podcast of the same name about the North Carolina court system. So we'll do a little digging and see if beyond the

bench is worth... It's worth a SCOTUS 101 recommendation. So this week, Justice Gorsuch

spoke to students in Atlantic City about civics and civility. So this seems to be a recurring

theme in his speeches. He sat down with his good friend Bill Hughes Jr., who he mentioned is a lifelong Democrat.

This was part of their conversation and commenting how it's possible to disagree without being disagreeable,

which is advice a lot of people should take to heart.

Especially people on Twitter.

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