The Justices' 2022 Events and Appearances with Links to Videos When Recorded
Updated with a dozen new events that were listed in the justices’ disclosures but were not previously reported; events included on the justices’ disclosures marked with an asterisk:
January
1. Justice Alito teaches at Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Va., 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 Thomas speaks at the Old Parkland Conference, an event sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, in Dallas (2/3-5/22)
6*. 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
7*. Justice Barrett speaks at the Notre Dame Law Review’s 2022 Federal Courts Symposium (2/14/22): Link to video
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12*. 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
13*. Justice Sotomayor speaks at Washington University in St. Louis with Wash. U. Chancellor Andrew Martin (4/5/22): Link to video
14. 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
15*. Justice Breyer receives the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law at the UVA School of Law (4/12/22): Link to video
16. Justices Kavanaugh attends a reception honoring Lisa Blatt hosted by the Supreme Court Institute of Georgetown University Law Center (4/28/22): No video; report here
May
17. Chief Justice Roberts speaks to the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference in Atlanta (5/5/22): No video recording; agenda here; press report here
18. Justice Thomas speaks to the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference in Atlanta (5/6/22): No video recording; agenda here; press report here
19. 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
20. 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
21. Justices Sotomayor and Barrett speak remotely at the Reagan Foundation (recorded 5/12/22; video released 7/28/22): Link to video
22. 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
23. Justice Alito teaches in Duke University School of Law’s Master of Judicial Studies LLM Program (5/20-21/22): No video recording; link to report here
24*. Then-Judge Jackson attends her last meeting as a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers (5/24-27/22): No video recording or press release but listed in her disclosure
June
25. Justice Sotomayor speaks at the American Constitution Society’s annual convention in Washington, D.C. (6/16/22): Link to video
26. Justice Sotomayor speaks at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference in New York (6/22/22): No video recording or press report (comes from an FTC source)
27. Justice Jackson is sworn in at the Supreme Court building (6/30/22): Link to video
July
28*. Justice Gorsuch co-teaches a two-week course for George Mason’s National Security Institute in Padua, Italy (7/10-23/22): No video recording; report here
29*. Justice Sotomayor participates in a New York University-sponsored leadership conference in Edinburgh, Scotland (7/17-22/22): No video recording or press release but listed in her disclosure
30. Justice Alito speaks to the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative in Rome (7/21/22): Link to video
31. Justice Kagan speaks at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Big Sky, Mont. (7/21/22): Link to video
August
32. Justice Kavanaugh speaks at the Eighth Circuit Judicial Conference (week of 8/1/22; one source says it was remote; another says it was in person in Rapid City, S.D.): No video recording; press report here
33*. Justice Barrett speaks with Judge Jeffrey Sutton at the Big Sky Labor and Employment Conference in Big Sky, Mont. (8/4/22): No video recording; agenda here
34*. Justice Breyer speaks at the ABA Conference in Chicago (8/6/22): Link to video
35*. Justice Barrett teaches at Notre Dame Law School (8/21-27/22): No video recording or press release but listed in her disclosure
36. 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
37. 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
38. Justice Gorsuch speaks at the Tenth Circuit Bench & Bar Conference in Colorado Springs (9/8/22): No video recording; press report here
39. Chief Justice Roberts speaks at the Tenth Circuit Bench & Bar Conference in Colorado Springs (9/9/22): Link to video
40*. Justice Kagan speaks at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center in New York, N.Y. (9/12/22): No video recording; press report here
41. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at Harvard Law School (9/12/22): Link to video
42*. Justice Kagan speaks at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago (at right) (9/14/22): Link to video
43*. Justice Kagan speaks at the dedication of Justice John Paul Stevens Courtyard at Northwestern Law in Chicago (9/14/22): Link to video
44*. Justice Breyer (ret.) participates in a Yale Law School constitutionalism seminar (9/14-17/22): No video recording or press release but listed in his disclosure
45. 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”
46. 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
47*. Justice Kagan gives a speech at Yale Law School (9/16/22): No video recording or press release but listed in her disclosure
48*. Justice Barrett speaks at the American College of Trial Lawyers annual meeting in Rome (9/17/22): No video recording; press release here
49*. Justices Kagan speaks at Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I. (9/19/22): Link to video
50. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at Harvard Law School (9/19/22): No video recorded; press report here
51*. Justice Kagan speaks at a retirement ceremony for Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella in Toronto (9/22/22): Link to video (starts at 31:19)
52. Justice Breyer (ret.) is interviewed by Chris Wallace for the latter’s new interview show (9/23/22): Video on HBO Max
53*. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at the National Constitutional Center in Philadelphia with CEO Jeffrey Rosen (9/23/22): Link to video
54*. Justice Kavanaugh speaks a conference with foreign and American judges in Rome organized by Notre Dame University’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies (9/23/22): No video recording; press release here
55. 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
56. Justice Jackson has a formal investiture ceremony in the Supreme Court courtroom (9/30/22): No video recording
57. Justice Jackson’s post-investiture celebration is held at the Library of Congress (9/30/22): Link to video
October
58. 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
59*. Justice Barrett speaks at the Saint Thomas More Society Diocesan Red Mass and dinner in Richmond, Va. (10/8/22): No video recording; press release here
60. Justice Sotomayor speaks remotely to the Rhode Island Festival of Children’s Books in Providence (10/14/22): No video recording; press report here
61. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University (10/19/22): Link to video
62*. Justice Sotomayor speaks at Roosevelt University in Chicago and receives the Eleanor Roosevelt Social Justice Award during in a conference organized by Just the Beginning-A Pipeline Organization in Chicago (10/20/22): No video recording; press report here
63. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks remotely to a Federal Bar Association meeting (10/20/22): No video recording; details here
64*. Justice Kagan speaks with University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill at UPenn in Philadelphia (10/21/22): Link to video
65. Justice Alito gives the 2022 Joseph Story Distinguished Lecture at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. (10/25/22): Link to video
66. Justice Breyer (ret.) gives a presentation to a Paris law school, Université Panthéon-Assas (10/28/22): No video recording; event announcement here
November
67. Justice Breyer (ret.) participates in a “fly-around” in France and Switzerland courtesy of the Pritzker Architecture Jury, which Breyer is a member of (11/1-5/22): No video recording or press release but listed in his disclosure
68. Justice Barrett speaks at the Federalist Society’s national convention in Washington, D.C. (11/10/22): No video recording; press report here
69. Justice Alito speaks at the Federalist Society’s national convention in Washington, D.C. (11/10/22): No video recording; press report here
70. 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
71. 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
72*. Justice Gorsuch attends Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Board of Trustees meeting (11/18-20/22): No video recording or press release but listed in his disclosure
73. Justices Kavanaugh and Jackson attend Judge Michelle Childs’ D.C. Circuit investiture (11/19/22): No video recording; report here; tweets here
December
74. 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
75. Justice Kavanaugh attends Matt and Mercy Schlapp’s annual Christmas party (12/9/22): No video recording; press report here
76. Chief Justice Roberts presides over the Supreme Court’s annual holiday party (12/16/22): No video recording
77. 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
78*. Justice Thomas co-teaches a class at Scalia Law with Prof. Jennifer Mascott (12/20/23): No video recording or press release but listed in his disclosure