"As the Supreme Court announced that its oral arguments for March were postponed due to covid-19, I decided to run the oral argument of one of its scheduled constitutional cases, Trump v. Vance, with my students in class online. Nine students took the roles of Justices, and a number of others volunteered to make the attorneys’ arguments on each side. Playing the Marshal of the Court, I announced, “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting.” For the next hour, students simulated on Zoom how the Supreme Court oral argument would go. There was no sign of anyone having just rolled out of bed. Some even dressed up for court. They showed that it was totally viable to have court hearings online during a lockdown, even for the highest court in the land. Finally, the Supreme Court announced that it would hold oral arguments in May, via teleconference—not video, likely because of Justices’ long-standing concern about the possibly distorting pressures and inducements of televised performance".
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