Here are the justices’ 2020, 2021 and 2022 events; prior years’ events were largely covered by SCOTUSMap

 

January

1. Justice Sotomayor speaks via videoconference and in conversation Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky to the Association of American Law Schools’ annual meeting in San Diego (1/4): Link to video

2. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks with Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium (1/9): Link to video

3. Justice Kagan christens the USNS Earl Warren in San Diego (1/21): No video recording; press report here

4. Justice Kavanaugh speaks at the Notre Dame Law Review Federal Courts Symposium (1/23): Link to video

February

5. Justice Barrett appears as a moot court judge at Notre Dame Law School (2/6): No video recording; law school recap here

6. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kennedy (ret.), Breyer (ret.), Kagan, Kavanaugh, Barrett and Jackson attend President Biden’s State of the Union address (2/7): Press report here; photo here

7. Justice Kavanaugh meets with members of the Columbia Law School Federalist Society chapter in the Supreme Court building (2/23): No video recording; Instagram post here

8. Justice Breyer (ret.) gives the Powell Lecture at the American College of Trial Lawyers’ annual meeting in Key Biscayne, Fla. (2/25): No video; schedule here

March

9. Justice Jackson speaks at event at the Moss Cultural Arts Center in Cutler Bay, Fla., for the dedication of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Street (3/6): Link to video

10. Justice Kavanaugh co-teaches seminar at Notre Dame’s London Gateway with ND Law Prof. William Kelley (3/6-10): No video recording; press report here

11. Justice Breyer (ret.) appears in conversation at Georgetown University with Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin (3/16): Announcement here; tweets here

12. All active justices, along with retired Justices Kennedy and Breyer, attend a commemorative meeting of the Supreme Court Bar in honor of Justice Ginsburg, which was followed by a special sitting of the Court (3/17): Link to video only for Bar service; no video for special session of the Court

13. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at GW Law about his impact on copyright law in the Burns Moot Court Room on GW’s campus (3/20): Announcement here

14. Justice Sotomayor speaks virtually at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Ark. (3/22): Announcement here; press report here

15. Justice Kagan meets with students from Bard High School Early College (New York, N.Y.) in the Supreme Court building (3/27): No video recording; Twitter post here

16. Justice Sotomayor speaks with Fordham University President Tania Tetlow in a virtual event (3/29): No video recording; press report here; tweet here

17. Justice Breyer (ret.) and his brother, Judge Charles Breyer, speak with GW Law Associate Dean Alan Morrison at Lisner Auditorium on GW’s campus (3/29): Link to video

April

18. Justice Barrett co-teaches seminar at Notre Dame’s London Gateway with ND Law Prof. William Kelley (c. 4/10-14): Press release here

19. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at Columbia University on the Supreme Court’s arbitration legacy (4/14): Announcement

20. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at a roundtable discussion titled “People, Rule of Law and Supreme Courts Now” at Columbia University’s Italian Academy for Advanced Studies (4/19): No video; article here

21. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks with journalist Marcia Coyle at the First Circuit Conference in Boston (4/20): Press report here; per a First Circuit source, video was not recorded

22. Justice Jackson delivers a video message honoring Justice Breyer (ret.) at the First Circuit Conference in Boston (4/20): Press report here; per a First Circuit source, video was not recorded

23. Justices Kagan and Kavanaugh attend a reception honoring Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart hosted by Georgetown Law’s Supreme Court Institute (4/27): No video recording; press report here

May

24. Justice Sotomayor sits with Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella for a Q&A following the premiere of a documentary about Justice Abella’s life (5/1): Press report here; no video

25. Justice Sotomayor visits (no prepared remarks) the Bronx Children’s Museum will First Lady Jill Biden (5/3): Press report here; tweet here

26. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks with GW Law Dean Dayna Bowen Matthew (5/16): Link to video

27. Justices Kavanaugh and Jackson participate in a charity three-mile run in Washington, D.C. (5/17): Press report here; video of Kavanaugh running here; Jackson photos here

28. Justice Jackson speaks at the American University Washington College of Law graduation (5/20): Link to video

29. Justice Jackson speaks at the Boston University School of Law graduation (5/21): Link to video (starts at 48:16)

30. Justice Kagan speaks at the American Law Institute’s annual meeting to present Chief Justice Roberts with ALI’s Henry J. Friendly Medal (5/23): Link to video

31. Justice Thomas meets with law students and recent law grads taking part in the Originalism Summer Seminar at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution (between 5/21-26): No video recording; noted here

32. Justice Gorsuch meets with law students and recent law grads taking part in the Originalism Summer Seminar at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution (between 5/21-26): No video recording; noted here

33. Chief Justice Roberts speaks at the American Law Institute’s annual meeting to accept its Henry J. Friendly Medal (5/23): Link to video (starts at 6:22)

June

34. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at an event hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society inside the Supreme Court courtroom (6/5): Link to video

35. Justice Kavanaugh attends the reception preceding the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual banquet inside the Supreme Court building (6/5): No video; press report here

36. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito and Barrett attend the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual banquet inside the Supreme Court building (6/5): No video; press report here

37. Justice Gorsuch cooks barbecue for Supreme Court staff in the building’s courtyard as part of an annual awards ceremony (6/6): No video; press report here

38. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Thomas (who spoke), Alito, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh attend the memorial service for C. Boyden Gray in Washington, D.C. (6/7): No video; press report here

39. Justice Sotomayor speaks remotely 22 judges from Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and Peru who were in San Juan, P.R., as part of a Justice Department training program for judiciaries in the Western Hemisphere (6/8): No video; press release here

40. Justices Thomas, Gorsuch (who spoke) and Kavanaugh attend a retirement ceremony for D.C. Circuit Judge David Sentelle in the D.C. Circuit building (6/9): No video; press report here

41. Justice Souter (ret.) speaks at a Concord High School (N.H.) ceremony in which he was inducted as the first member of the school’s new hall of fame (6/13): Press report (with some video) here

42. Justice Sotomayor speaks at a closed press Second Circuit conference outside Albany, N.Y. (6/21): No video; press report here

43. Justice Thomas hosts 60 high school students from the Bronx, N.Y., at the Court (date unclear but likely toward the end of June): No video; press report here

July

44. Justice Kavanaugh speaks at the Eighth Circuit Conference in Bloomington, Minn. (7/13): No video; press report here

45. Justice Alito visits the Wall Street Journal’s New York office (“early July”): No video; interview here

46. Justice Gorsuch teaches at the summer program of the National Security Institute at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, which this year was held in Lisbon, Portugal (7/17-28): Announcement of the program here

47. Justice Alito attends the opening of the Bayreuth Festival in Regensburg, Germany, as the guest of Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, who appears to also have hosted the Alitos at her castle prior to the festival (around 7/24): No video; article here

August

48. Justice Kagan speaks at the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Portland, Ore. (8/3). Three days prior, Kagan presented awards to two winners of the circuit’s high school civics contact: Link to video of her speech; link to article noting award presentation

49. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel, at an event hosted by the Tachlith Institute for Israeli Public Policy (8/4): No video; article here

50. Justice Kagan attends the men’s singles final at the Mubadala Citi DC Open at Rock Creek Tennis Center in Washington, D.C., (8/6): No video; picture here

51. Justice Barrett speaks at the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference at the Grand Geneva Resort in Lake Geneva, Wisc. (8/28): No video; press report here

September

52. Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Kagan and Justice Breyer (ret.) participate in a two-day meeting with members of the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa and Montreal (Week of 9/4): No video; announcement here

53. Justice Gorsuch speaks at the Tenth Circuit Judicial Conference in Santa Fe, N.M. (9/6 or 9/7): No video; no press access; press report regardless here

54. Justice Kavanaugh speaks at the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference in Cleveland (9/7): No video; press report here

55. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at a First Circuit ceremony honoring the life of Judge Juan Torruella (9/8): Link to video

56. Chief Justice Roberts swears in the new Archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan (9/11): Link to video

57. Chief Justice Roberts presides over the semiannual Judicial Conference meeting in Washington, D.C. (9/12): No video; press report here

58. Justice Breyer (ret.) is interviewed at GW Law by Ken Feinberg on Breyer’s time working in the Senate (9/14): Announcement here

59. Justice Jackson and her husband visit the Civil Rights Institute, a Birmingham, Ala., museum (9/13): No video; press report here

60. Justice Jackson and her husband attend grand rounds at the Children’s Hospital of Alabama, eat lunch at Yo Mama’s restaurant, visit the Birmingham Museum of Art and eat dinner at Highlands Bar & Grill (9/14): No video; press report here; photo from lunch here; photo from dinner here

61. Justice Jackson speaks at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham at an event marking the 60th anniversary of a bombing that killed four girls (9/15): Link to video

62. Justice Jackson and her husband visit the Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey Monument; the Rosa Parks Museum; the Civil Rights Memorial Center; the Legacy Museum; and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. (9/16): No video; press report here

63. Justice Sotomayor appears in the season two premiere of “Alma’s Way” on PBS Kids (9/18): Announcement here; video segment here

64. Justice Breyer (ret.) participates in Yale Law’s Global Constitutionalism Seminar in New Haven, Conn. (9/20-23): No video

65. Justice Barrett speaks at Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C., in an event sponsored by its Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (9/21): Link to video; press report here

66. Justice Jackson speaks at a Harvard Club of Washington, D.C., event at the City Tavern Club in Georgetown and receives the Club’s 2023 Public Service Award (9/21): No video; announcement here

67. Justice Kagan speaks at the Notre Dame Forum in the university’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center with Law School Dean Marcus Cole in South Bend, Ind.; before that, she guest-taught Notre Dame Law Prof. Rick Garnett’s 1L criminal law class (9/22): Link to video of the Forum; tweet mentioning the class

68. Justice Kagan attends a Notre Dame football tailgate (9/23): No video; Instagram post here

69. Justice Barrett attends a celebration of the Red Mass (special service for legal profession) in Austin, Tex. (9/23): No video; press release here; tweet here

70. Justice Jackson reads from Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” at the unveiling of new stained glass windows of civil rights protestors that replaced depictions of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (9/23): Link to video; press report here

71. Justice Kavanaugh presents the highest honor given to a federal judge to Judge José Cabranes of the Second Circuit in a ceremony at the Supreme Court (9/26): No video (confirmed by SCOTUS PIO); announcement here

72. Justice Sotomayor speaks at Stevenson University’s Baltimore Speaker Series (9/27): Per the organizer: “Photos, video, and audio recordings are prohibited, as is live-streaming. We are not offering press passes”; no press report of yet; announcement here

October

73. Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Barrett and Justice Kennedy (ret.) attend the annual Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. D.C. (10/1): No video; press report here

74. Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Sotomayor and Justice Kennedy (ret.) attend, with Roberts speaking, at the unveiling of the U.S. Postal Service’s Justice Ginsburg stamp (10/2): No video yet (possibly recorded but not yet posted); press report here; tweet here

75. Justice Barrett is the featured speaker at the University of Minnesota Law School’s annual Stein Lecture (10/16): Link to video

76. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Saturday Night Massacre (10/18): Link to video

77. Justice Sotomayor speaks at a portrait unveiling for the late S.D.N.Y. Judge Deborah Batts, who served with Sotomayor (10/19): No video; press report here

78. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks with the Chief Justice of India at an event hosted by Georgetown Law (10/23): Link to video

79. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks with British Consul General to New England Dr. Peter Abbott at the British Consulate in Cambridge (10/30): Link to video

80. Justice Gorsuch speaks with two dozen students from Princeton University’s James Madison Program in the Supreme Court building (10/31): No video; tweeted here

November

81. Justice Kavanaugh speaks at the National Judicial College’s Appellate Judges Education Institute in Washington, D.C. (11/2): Schedule here; additional details on the event is password-protected here

82. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks with Ninth Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown and Cathy Douglas Stone, Justice William Douglas’ widow, in Boston’s Moakley Courthouse (11/6): Unclear if video; press report here

83. Justice Breyer (ret.) is interviewed by GW Law Prof. Robert Brauneis about Breyer’s time working on the First Circuit and with the U.S. Sentencing Commission (11/8): Announcement here

84. Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett attend, with Barrett speaking, the Federalist Society’s 2023 National Lawyers Convention, titled “Originalism on the Ground,” in Washington, D.C. (11/9): No video posted; press report here

85. Justice Sotomayor participates in a moot court competition at Harvard Law School (11/15): Link to video

86. Chief Justice Roberts presents the Rehnquist Award to Nebraska Judge James Doyle during an event at the Supreme Court (11/16): No video; press release from NCSC here

87. Justice Breyer (ret.) attends Harvard Law Prof. Charles Fried’s final class (11/29 or 11/30): No video; post here

88. Justice Kennedy speaks with UCLA Law Prof. Eugene Volokh during the launch of the Center for Revitalizing American Institutions at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, Calif. (11/30): No video; article here

December

89. Justice Alito speaks at the 30th anniversary celebration of Princeton Prof. Robert George’s Making Men Moral at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. (12/1): Link to video

90. Chief Justice Roberts attends the Kennedy Center honors (12/3): Tweet here

91. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett attend a reception, possibly a holiday party, at the Supreme Court (12/6): No video; tweet here

92. Justice Breyer (ret.) visits Rochambeau, the French International School, in Bethesda, Md. (12/6): No video; pictures here

93. Justice Breyer (ret.) presents the Institute for Education Global Visionary Award to EU Ambassador to the United Nations Stavros Lambrinidis at an IFE event in Washington (12/6): Photos

94. All nine actives justices and Justice Kennedy (ret.) attend a ceremony at the Court honoring their late colleague, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, as she lay in repose in the Great Hall, with Justice Sotomayor delivering a eulogy (12/18): Link to video

95. All nine actives justices and Justice Kennedy (ret.) attend Justice O’Connor’s funeral at the National Cathedral in an invitation-only service, with Chief Justice Roberts delivering a eulogy (12/19): Link to video; tweet with all 10 here