The Justices' 2025 Events and Appearances with Links to Videos When Recorded
The 2025 events are below. We’ve also covered the justices’ 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 events, and prior years’ events in the recent past were covered by SCOTUSMap.
Future events and appearances
8. Chief Justice Roberts is expected to swear in President-elect Trump and Justice Kavanaugh is expected to swear in Vice President-elect Vance at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, with several other justices in attendance (1/20): Video TK
9. Justice Jackson is scheduled to visit the Virgin Islands for several events, many of which will be hosted by the U.S. District Court there (Feb. TBD): Announcement
10. Justice Sotomayor is scheduled to receive the Brandeis School of Law’s Brandeis Medal in Louisville, Ky. (2/5): Announcement
11. Justice Breyer (ret.) is scheduled to give a book talk in Coral Gables, Fla., with former Miami Herald publisher David Lawrence, Jr. (2/16): Announcement
12. Justice Jackson is scheduled to give a book talk at the House of Hope in Chicago (2/19): Announcement
13. Justice Kagan is scheduled to receive the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. (2/25): Announcement
14. Justice Breyer (ret.) is scheduled to speak at the Cary Lecture Series at Cary Hall in Lexington, Mass. (5/3): Announcement
15. Justice Sotomayor is scheduled to receive the World Peace & Liberty Award at the World Law Congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (5/6): Announcement
16. Justice Sotomayor is scheduled to speak with writer and director Fran Sillau about the stage adaptation of Just Ask (5/8): Announcement
Past events and appearances
1. Justice Barrett swears in Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) to her second term in a ceremony in the U.S. Capitol in Washington (1/3): Instagram post (no video)
2. Justice Kavanaugh attends an event celebrating the swearing in of Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) in the Capitol Visitor Center (1/3): Instagram post (no video)
3. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kagan and Kavanaugh attend the memorial service for President Jimmy Carter in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington (1/7): Video
4. Justice Breyer (ret.) hears oral argument in the First Circuit in Boston in five appeals (1/8): Audio (no video)
5. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Sotomayor, Kagan, Kavanaugh, Barrett and Jackson attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington (1/9): Video
6. Justice Breyer (ret.) hears oral argument in the First Circuit in Boston in four appeals (1/10): Audio (no video)
7. Justice Breyer (ret.) receives a New York State Bar Association award at its annual gala in Manhattan (1/16): Video