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A List of the Justices' 2022 Events and Appearances with Links to Videos When Recorded

January

1. Justice Alito teaches at Regent University School of Law during a three-day seminar called “Select Issues in Constitutional Interpretation” (1/10-12/22): No video recording; press release here 

2. Justice Breyer speaks to former federal judge David Levi, now director of the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law School, on Levi’s podcast, “Judgment Calls” (1/26/22): Link to audio

3. Justice Sotomayor appears remotely from her chambers on the “Tamron Hall Show” (1/27/23): Link to video

4. Justice Breyer announces his retirement in a press conference at the White House (1/27/23): Link to video

February

5. Justice Gorsuch speaks with former law clerk Ethan Davis at an event hosted by the Florida chapter of the Federalist Society at Disney’s Yacht and Beach Club Resort in Lake Buena Vista (2/4/22): No video recording; press report here

6. Justice Barrett speaks at the Notre Dame Law Review’s 2022 Federal Courts Symposium (2/14/22): Link to video

7. Justice Breyer speaks with Counselor to the Chief Justice Jeffrey Minear before participants in the Supreme Court Fellows Program at the Library of Congress (2/17/22): Link to video

March

8. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Breyer, Kagan, Kavanaugh and Barrett attend President Biden’s State of the Union Address (3/1/22): Press report here

9. Justice Thomas speaks with Utah Supreme Court Justice Thomas Lee at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, an event sponsored by the Orrin G. Hatch Foundation (3/11/22): No video recording; press report here 

10. Justice Sotomayor speaks remotely to students in a webinar co-presented by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center and Long Island University (3/30/22): No video recording; press report here

April

11. Justice Barrett speaks with Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (4/4/22): Link to video

12. Justice Sotomayor speaks at Washington University in St. Louis with Wash. U. Chancellor Andrew Martin (4/5/22): Link to video

13. Justice Breyer speaks with Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India N.V. Ramana and Georgetown University Law Center Dean William Treanor via videoconference, an event sponsored by GULC and the New Delhi-based Society for Democratic Rights (4/11/22): Link to video

14. Justice Breyer receives the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law at the UVA School of Law (4/12/22): Link to video

May

15. Chief Justice Roberts speaks to the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference in Atlanta (5/5/22): No video recording; agenda here; press report here 

16. Justice Thomas speaks to the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference in Atlanta (5/6/22): No video recording; agenda here; press report here

17. Justice Alito cancels his appearance but sends a brief video to the Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference in Nashville (5/6/22): No video recording; press report here

18. Justice Alito speaks remotely to the fourth annual Scalia Forum, held at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University (5/12/22): No video recording; press report here

19. Justices Sotomayor and Barrett speak remotely at the Reagan Foundation (recorded 5/12/22; video released 7/28/22): Link to video

20. Justice Thomas speaks at the Old Parkland Conference, an event sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, Manhattan Institute and Hoover Institution, in Dallas (5/13/22): Link to video

21. Justice Alito teaches in Duke University School of Law’s Master of Judicial Studies LLM Program (classes took place 5/16-6/10/22; specific timing of Alito’s seminar unclear): No video recording; link to report here

June

22. Justice Sotomayor speaks at the American Constitution Society’s annual convention in Washington, D.C. (6/16/22): Link to video

23. Justice Sotomayor speaks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference in New York (6/22/22): No video recording

24. Justice Jackson is sworn in at the Supreme Court building (6/30/22): Link to video

July

25. Justice Gorsuch co-teaches a two-week course for George Mason’s National Security Institute in Padua, Italy (mid-July 2022): No video recording; report here

26. Justice Alito speaks to the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative in Rome (7/21/22): Link to video

27. Justice Kagan speaks at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Big Sky, Mont. (7/21/22): Link to video

August

28. Justice Kavanaugh speaks at the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference (week of 8/1/22; one source say it was remote; another says it was in person in Rapid City, S.D.): No video recording; press report here

29. Justice Barrett speaks at the Big Sky Labor and Employment Conference in Big Sky, Mont. (8/4/22): No video recording; agenda here

30. Justice Breyer speaks at the ABA Conference in Chicago (8/6/22): Link to video

31. Justice Kavanaugh speaks at the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference in Louisville, Ky. (held 8/30-9/2/22; Kavanaugh not on agenda but attendance was confirmed by a source): No video recording; press report here

September

32. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson attend the investiture of Second Circuit Judge Alison Nathan, with Sotomayor and Kagan speaking, in New York, N.Y. (9/1/22): Video was recorded, posted here, but has since been taken offline

33. Justice Gorsuch speaks at the Tenth Circuit Bench & Bar Conference Conference in Colorado Springs (9/8/22): No video recording; press report here

34. Chief Justice Roberts speaks at the Tenth Circuit Bench & Bar Conference Conference in Colorado Springs (9/9/22): Link to video

35. Justice Kagan speaks at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center in New York, N.Y. (9/12/22): No video recording; press report here

36. Justice Breyer speaks at Harvard Law School (9/12/22): Link to video

37. Justice Kagan speaks at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago (at right) (9/14/22): Link to video

38. Justice Kagan speaks at the dedication of Justice John Paul Stevens Courtyard at Northwestern Law in Chicago (9/14/22): Link to video

39. Justice Sotomayor speaks remotely to the Lawyers Club of San Diego (9/15/22): Event was livestreamed, but according to a Lawyers Club spokesperson, “The Supreme Court has not given permission to share the recording”

40. Chief Justice Roberts speaks remotely at the dedication of Don R. Willett Elementary School in Forney, Tex. (9/15/22): Video was recorded but not posted; attendee took a video of the recording and posted it here

41. Justices Kagan speaks at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I. (9/19/22): Link to video

42. Justice Breyer speaks at Harvard Law School (9/19/22): No video recorded; press report here

43. Justice Breyer is interviewed by Chris Wallace for the latter’s new interview show (9/23/22): Video on HBO Max

44. Justice Alito speaks at Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. (9/27/22): No video recording; press report here and CUA’s report here

45. Justice Jackson has a formal investiture ceremony in the Supreme Court courtroom (9/30/22): No video recording

46. Justice Jackson’s post-investiture celebration is held at the Library of Congress (9/30/22): Link to video

October

47. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Breyer (ret.) and Barrett attend the 70th annual Red Mass at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (10/2/22): No video recording; press report here

48. Justice Sotomayor speaks at the Rhode Island Festival of Children’s Books in Providence (10/14/22): No video recording; press report here

49. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University (10/19/22): Link to video

50. Justice Sotomayor speaks at Roosevelt University in Chicago and receives the Eleanor Roosevelt Social Justice Award (10/20/22): No video recording; press report here 

51. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks remotely at a Federal Bar Association meeting (10/20/22): No video recording; details here

52. Justice Kagan speaks with University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill at UPenn in Philadelphia (10/21/22): Link to video

53. Justice Alito gives the 2022 Joseph Story Distinguished Lecture at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. (10/25/22): Link to video

54. Justice Breyer (ret.) gives a presentation to a Paris law school, Université Panthéon-Assas (10/28/22): No video recording; event announcement here

November

55. Justice Barrett speaks at the Federalist Society’s national convention in Washington, D.C. (11/10/22): No video recording; press report here 

56. Justice Alito speaks at the Federalist Society’s national convention in Washington, D.C. (11/10/22): No video recording; press report here 

57. Justice Sotomayor speaks with Soledad O’Brien at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Conn. (11/15/22): No video recording; press report here 

58. Chief Justice Roberts presents Oregon Circuit Judge Nan G. Waller with the Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence and gives remarks during an event at the Supreme Court (11/17/22): No video recording; tweets here

59. Justices Kavanaugh and Jackson attend Judge Michelle Childs’ D.C. Circuit investiture (11/19/22): No video recording; report here; tweets here

December

60. Justice Breyer (ret.) attends the White House state dinner honoring the French president and first lady (12/1/22): No video recording; press report here

61. Justice Kavanaugh attends Matt and Mercy Schlapp’s annual Christmas party (12/9/22): No video recording; press report here

62. Chief Justice Roberts presides over the Supreme Court’s annual holiday party (12/16/22): No video recording

63. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kennedy (ret.), Kagan and Kavanaugh attend the memorial service for Cissy Marshall at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. (12/20/23): Link to video

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