Supreme Court Firsts: Teleconferences, Livestreams, And A Toilet Flush
The NPR Politics Podcast
NPR
4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional correspondent Kelsey Snell, and chief legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg.
Connect:
Subscribe to the NPR Politics Podcast here.
Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org.
Join the NPR Politics Podcast Facebook Group.
Subscribe to the NPR Politics Newsletter.
Find and support your local public radio station
See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.
NPR Privacy Policy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Beth and Columbus, Ohio, and I'm currently reading about Kelsey's |
| 0:04.4 | snows' ratted venture in the New York Times. Don't worry Kelsey, it happens to |
| 0:08.6 | the best of us. I had my card declared a total loss after a nest got sucked into |
| 0:13.8 | my engine. This podcast was recorded at 2.14 pm on Thursday, May 7th. Things may |
| 0:20.8 | have changed by the time you hear this, but rats making a home in your |
| 0:24.3 | car's engine block is eternal. Have a great day. Oh my god, my rat-based fame |
| 0:32.1 | continue. You have spawned like multiple New York Times-style trend stories, |
| 0:37.6 | which is amazing. This is my style is having rats in my car. Hey there, it's the |
| 0:46.6 | NPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House. I'm Kelsey |
| 0:50.8 | Snell, I cover Congress. And I'm Nina Totenberg. I'm the legal affairs |
| 0:54.3 | correspondent, Frank PR. And Nina, you are here with us today because it was a |
| 0:58.8 | historic week for the Supreme Court in two ways. Yes indeed, this was the first |
| 1:05.0 | time that the Supreme Court has heard arguments remotely by telephone hookup |
| 1:10.6 | and the first time that the public could actually hear arguments live. Oh yeah, oh |
| 1:17.4 | yeah, oh yeah, all persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court |
| 1:23.1 | of the United States are admonished to join here and give their attention for the |
| 1:27.1 | court is now sitting. It's actually kind of funny because while everyone else |
| 1:31.7 | has discovered Zoom calls and video conferencing during this time of pandemic, |
| 1:36.7 | the Supreme Court has discovered the phone. Well yes, and they actually I think |
| 1:42.0 | they actually I think had some reasons. I think that technologically the Supreme |
| 1:47.3 | Court is not what you call it, the forefront of technology. That's number one. |
| 1:50.6 | And number two, I think they were worried that they could be hacked not so that |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.