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The Counsel

Note From Elie: The Supreme Court Publicity Tour

The Counsel

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics

4.7861 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Note From Elie is part of the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter. Audio recordings of Elie's Note are part of the CAFE Insider subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.5

Hey everyone, Ellie here, bringing you my weekly note to the cafe community.

0:35.3

Also, make sure to check out my new podcast, Up Against the Mob.

0:39.3

Episode 5 is out now. You can binge them all at once, back to back. Check it out. It's on Apple,

0:46.0

Spotify, wherever you get your podcast, you will love this. And keep sending us your comments,

0:51.5

questions, or thoughts to letters atcafe.com.

1:10.1

More than half the Supreme Court spent its summer recess on a publicity jag.

1:16.0

All as well, the justices assured us between terms, we're above the political fray, and it's the media's fault if you think otherwise.

1:24.2

Well, I'm not buying it. If anything, the justices have undermined public confidence in the court

1:29.4

with their condescending, ham-handed PR campaigns. There's a fair debate about whether the

1:35.5

justices should be out in public making extrajudicial comments about how the court works,

1:40.9

or whether they should remain above it all, cloistered in chambers and speaking through

1:44.9

their formal opinions rather than on TV. Now, I'm no Luddite when it comes to the judicial

1:49.9

system. If anything, our courts need to do better at getting with the times. Live stream proceedings,

1:55.9

electronic filing, and accessibility to documents, cameras in the courtroom. I'm for all of it, and it's way

2:02.4

overdue. Only when COVID hit did the Supreme Court in 2020 finally relent and allow live audio

2:08.3

streams of oral arguments. And guess what? It went fine. The sky didn't fall, and the court and

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