The Justices' 2026 Events, Appearances and Interviews, With Links to Videos When Recorded
The 2026 events are below. We’ve also covered the justices’ 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 events, and prior years’ events in the recent past were covered by SCOTUSMap.
Future events, appearances and interviews
106. Justice Jackson is scheduled to speak at Southern Methodist University’s Tate Lecture Series in Dallas (5/12): Announcement
107. Justice Thomas and Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge Bill Pryor are scheduled to appear in conversation with Kasdin Mitchell, who clerked for both judges, at the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference in Aventura, Fla. (5/14): Announcement; video not permitted, per CA11
108. Justice Thomas is scheduled to speak at a Young Lawyers Roundtable with the Judiciary in Aventura, Fla., following the conclusion of the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference (5/15): Announcement; video not permitted, per the announcement
109. Justice Breyer (ret.) is scheduled to speak with Third Circuit Judge Cheryl Ann Krause at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia (5/16): Announcement
110. Justices TBD are expected to appear before the Senate Appropriations’ Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee (5/20): Announcement; video expected
111. Justice Gorsuch and coauthor Janie Nitze are scheduled to speak with the National Constitution Center’s Julie Silverbrook at the Center in Philadelphia (5/30): Announcement; livestream expected
112. Justice Barrett is scheduled to speak with Supreme Court Historical Society Executive Director Jim Duff at the Society’s annual lecture and dinner in the Supreme Court building (6/8): Announcement
113. Justice Breyer (ret.) is expected to receive the 2026 Thurgood Marshall Award at the Washington D.C. Bar Association’s annual Celebration of Leadership event (6/18): Announcement
114. Justice Jackson is scheduled to speak with former U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and receive the Arabella Babb Mansfield Award at the National Association of Women Lawyers convention in Chicago (7/23): Announcement
115. Justice Kavanaugh is scheduled to be the keynote speaker and receive the St. Thomas More Award at the Catholic Bar Association Annual Conference in Dallas (9/26): Announcement
116. Justice Thomas’ official portrait is expected to be unveiled at some point in the not-too-distant future (date unknown): Announcement
Past events, appearances and interviews
January
1. Justice Breyer (ret.) teaches a two-week course on the Supreme Court with Provost Jenny Martinez at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif. (early Jan.): Post (no video)
2. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks with Provost Martinez at Stanford Law (1/8): Post (no video)
3. Justice Gorsuch meets with students of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation scholarship program at a private event in D.C. (1/9): Post (no video)
4. Justice Breyer (ret.) accepts the 11th Annual O’Connor Justice Prize at a dinner at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in Phoenix and speaks with former Arizona Chief Justice Scott Bales at the event (1/16): Post and photos (no video)
5. Justice Alito attends a conference and cocktail reception at the Hôtel Le Marois in Paris hosted by the Law & Liberty Circle and the Federalist Society (1/29): Announcement and article (no video)
6. Justice Jackson, along with Ninth Circuit Judge Holly Thomas and D. Mass. Judge Patti Saris, judges a moot court competition at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law in Malibu, Calif. (1/30): Article (no video)
7. Justice Jackson speaks with Caruso Law Dean Paul Caron in Malibu, Calif. (1/30): Article (no video)
8. Chief Justice Roberts attends the Alfalfa Club dinner in D.C. (1/31): Article (no video)
9. Justice Barrett and her husband Jesse visit Israel (likely late Jan. or early Feb.): Photo, which has since been taken off the Internet (no video)
February
10. Justice Jackson attends the 2026 Grammy Awards at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles (2/1): Video
11. Justice Kennedy is interviewed in his SCOTUS chambers by ABC News’ Devin Dwyer on “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis” (2/2): Video
12. Justice Barrett was scheduled to speak at Villanova University in Villanova, Penn. (on or around 2/3): Working to confirm
13. Chief Justice Roberts, along with Sixth Circuit Judge Joan Larsen and Eleventh Circuit Judge Barbara Lagoa, judges the Van Vleck Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition at GW Law in D.C. (2/5): Article (no video)
14. Justice Jackson speaks with artist Isaac Julien and Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie Bunch about Julien’s video installation on Frederick Douglass at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in D.C. (2/4): Post (no video)
15. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla., as part of the school’s 125th anniversary celebration (2/5): Post (no video)
16. Justice Sotomayor speaks to students at Pasadena High School in Pasadena, Calif. (2/6): Photo (no video)
17. Justice Sotomayor speaks to students at the UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles (2/6): Article (no video)
18. Justice Sotomayor speaks with California Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero and Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Mary Murguia at Occidental College in Los Angeles (2/6): Article (no video)
19. Justice Kennedy (ret.) speaks at the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Fla. (2/6): Announcement (confirmed by venue but no photos or video)
20. Justice Sotomayor reads to fifth graders at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, Calif. (2/9): Article (no video)
21. Justice Sotomayor is honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Japanese American Bar Association dinner in Los Angeles (2/9): Post (no full video)
22. Justice Alito is interviewed in his chambers by journalist James Rosen for Politico (came out 2/10, interview conducted a year prior): Article (no video)
23. Justice Sotomayor speaks with children’s author Carmen Tafolla at the Carver Community Center in San Antonio, Tex. (2/10): Post (no video)
24. Justice Barrett speaks at Duke Law School with its dean, Kerry Abrams, in Durham, N.C. (2/10): Article (no video)
25. Justice Barrett, along with Fourth Circuit Judges Albert Diaz and Pamela Harris, judges a moot court competition at Duke Law School in Durham, N.C. (on or around 2/10): Post (no video)
26. Justice Jackson is interviewed by CBS News’ Gayle King, Nate Burleson and Vladimir Duthiers on “CBS Mornings” in New York (aired on 2/10): Video
27. Justice Jackson is interviewed by Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines on ABC’s “The View” in New York (2/10): Video
28. Justice Sotomayor speaks with children’s author Eliza Kinkz at the First Baptist Church in Austin, Tex. (2/11): Post (no video)
29. Justice Sotomayor speaks with Dean of the University of Puerto Rico School of Law Vivian Rivera at the Teatro de la Universidad de Puerto Rico in San Juan (2/13): Article (no video)
30. Justice Thomas speaks with Notre Dame Law Prof. Haley Proctor at the Law Review’s spring symposium in South Bend, Ind. (2/13): Article (no video)
31. Justice Jackson is interviewed by CBS News’ Adriana Diaz in New York (aired on 2/14): Video
32. Justice Alito speaks with Washington & Lee School of Law Prof. Russell Miller and German Federal Constitutional Court Justice Henning Radtke at an event celebrating the Court’s 75th anniversary at the German Embassy in D.C. (2/20): Post (no video)
33. Justice Sotomayor visits the William & Mary Law School and receives the Marshall-Wythe Medallion (2/20) Photos (no video)
34. Justice Jackson speaks remotely with journalist Elise Hu on her “Raising Us” parenting podcast (aired on 2/24): Audio (no video)
35. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kagan, Kavanaugh and Barrett attend the President’s State of the Union address (2/24): Video
36. Justice Sotomayor speaks remotely with iCivics Director of Educator Engagement Natacha Scott as part of the organization’s Civic Learning Week 2026 (recorded on 2/25; aired on 3/11): Photo (video online until 3/18 but then removed)
37. Justice Thomas speaks remotely from Sen. Mike Lee’s D.C. office with attorney Gene Schaerr at the J. Reuben Clark Law Society’s annual conference, hosted by American University’s Washington College of Law (2/26): Article (no video)
38. Justice Sotomayor participates remotely in a conversation with Northeastern School of Law Profs. Judy Brown and Wendy Parmet (2/27): Photos (no video)
39. Justice Jackson shares a remote message with her alma mater high school to celebrate a debate tournament held there (2/28): Video clip (no full video)
March
40. Justice Jackson meets with students from the William & Mary Law School Black Law Students Association in the Supreme Court building (3/3): Post (no video)
41. Justice Jackson speaks with journalist Jonathan Capehart at Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Md. (3/7): Post (no video)
42. Justice Barrett speaks with retired E.D. Cal. Judge David Levi and local attorney Ben Allison at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, N.M. (3/8): Video
43. Justices Kavanaugh and Jackson participate in a Flannery Lecture Series panel discussion moderated by D.D.C. Judge Paul Friedman at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in D.C. (3/9): Article (no video)
44. Justice Jackson speaks to students participating in the U.S. Senate Youth Program during their “Washington Week” (week of 3/9; exact date unclear): Post (no video)
45. Justice Barrett gives the 2026 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture, which was a conversation with Counselor to the Chief Justice Bob Dow at the Law Library of Congress in D.C. (3/12): Video
46. Justice Barrett and her husband Jesse attend a Supreme Court Fellows reception, likely in the Court building or Library of Congress (3/12): Mentioned in this appearance (no video)
47. Justice Jackson speaks with students at Jefferson High School in Portland, Ore. (3/12) Article (no video)
48. Justice Jackson speaks with author Renée Watson at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Ore. (3/12): Post (no video)
49. Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett attend the investiture of Sixth Circuit Judge Whitney Hermandorfer in Nashville, Tenn. (3/13): Post (no video)
50. Justice Jackson speaks at a First Circuit judges’ workshop in Maine (3/16): Confirmed by CA1 staff (no video)
51. Chief Justice Roberts speaks with S.D. Tex. Judge Lee Rosenthal at Rice University in Houston (3/17): Video
52. Justice Barrett visits Rhodes College in Memphis for an event with students and faculty (3/18): Article (no video)
53. All of the active justices — minus Justice Gorsuch, per a tipster — and Justice Kennedy (ret.) attend a memorial ceremony at the Supreme Court celebrating Justice O’Connor, which was followed by a special session of the Court honoring her (3/19): Had live video of the former here, but it’s no longer online; audio of the latter is here
54. Justice Alito attends the first annual Originalism Lecture at the Edwin Meese III Institute for the Rule of Law at Advancing American Freedom in D.C. (3/19): Post (no video)
55. Justice Alito attends a Federalist Society-sponsored dinner at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia following a symposium on this jurisprudence at UPenn (3/20): Article (no video)
56. Justice Barrett meets with a delegation from Waynesburg University in the Supreme Court building (3/20): Post (no video)
57. Justice Kagan hosts students from Bard High School Early College Brooklyn in the Supreme Court building (3/23): Via a source (no video)
58. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks with Harvard College Dean David Deming in Cambridge, Mass. (3/23): Photos (no video)
59. Justice Sotomayor and illustrator Jacqueline Alcántara speak with D.C. Bar President Sadina Montani at D.C. Bar headquarters in D.C. (3/25): Article (no video)
April
60. Justice Jackson meets with students from Network Connect, a Delaware afterschool program, in the Supreme Court building (early April; exact date unknown): Post (no video)
61. Justice Gorsuch meets with judicial assistants from the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in the (U.S.) Supreme Court building (on or around 4/2): Photos (no video)
62. Justice Jackson meets with students from Howard University School of Law in the Supreme Court building (on or around 4/6): Post (no video)
63. Justice Sotomayor speaks with Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Mary Murguía and UnidosUS President Janet Murguía at the University of Kansas School of Law in Lawrence (4/7): Article (no video)
64. Justice Sotomayor eats lunch with students at the University of Alabama Law School in Tuscaloosa (4/9): Mentioned here (no video)
65. Justice Sotomayor speaks with University of Alabama Law School Dean William Brewbaker III on campus as part of the Albritton Lecture event (4/9): Video
66. Justice Sotomayor attends a dinner at the University of Alabama as part of the Albritton Lecture event (4/9): Post (no video)
67. Justice Kavanaugh participates in an event cosponsored by Notre Dame’s Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government and the Catholic University of America’s Center for the Constitution and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and Carroll Forum for Citizenship and Public Life at CUA in D.C. (4/9): Video
68. Justice Kavanaugh attends at a book party for Sarah Isgur’s Last Branch Standing at the home of journalists Martha Raddatz and Tom Gjelten (4/12): Article (no video)
69. Chief Justice Roberts speaks to an evidence class and a federal courts class at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville (4/13): Article (no video)
70. Chief Justice Roberts attends a dinner at Monticello, part of the ceremony around his receiving the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law (4/13): Announcement (no video)
71. Justice Jackson speaks at Yale Law School, in a talk titled “Equity and Exigency: A First-Principles Solution for the Supreme Court’s Emergency Docket,” which was followed by a conversation with Dean Cristina Rodríguez, in New Haven, Conn. (4/13): Video
72. Justice Breyer (ret.) and N.D. Cal. Judge Charles Breyer speak with former AO Director Jim Duff at the University of Kentucky in Lexington (4/13): Article (no video)
73. Chief Justice Roberts receives the Jefferson Medal at the University of Virginia and addresses guests (4/14): Article (no video)
74. Justice Thomas has lunch with students from the University of Texas at Austin in Austin (4/15) Mentioned in this video
75. Justice Thomas speaks at UT Austin to commemorate the 250th birthday of the U.S. and following his address speaks with the university’s provost, William Inboden (4/15): Video
76. Justice Sotomayor meets with students from the University of Miami School of Law in the Supreme Court building (4/20): Post (no video)
77. Justice Breyer (ret.) was scheduled to join Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Martin West on campus in Cambridge, Mass. (4/21) Article (no video)
78. Justice Gorsuch speaks with former ABA President Mary Smith at the Williamsburg Lodge in Williamsburg, Va. (4/25): Article (no video)
79. Justice Gorsuch is interviewed by Reason magazine’s Nick Gillespie in what appears to be the Supreme Court building (4/28): Video
80. Justice Breyer (ret.) attends King Charles III’s speech before a joint session of Congress (4/28): Post (no video)
81. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett attend a state dinner in honor of King Charles III at the White House (4/28): Post (no video)
82. Justice Gorsuch is interviewed by the National Review‘s Dan McLaughlin in the Supreme Court’s West Conference Room (interview on 4/29; article ran on 5/4): Video
May
83. Justice Gorsuch is interviewed by Fox News’ Shannon Bream in the Supreme Court building for “Fox News Sunday” (aired on 5/3): Video
84. Justice Gorsuch is interviewed by Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt on “Fox & Friends” from the Fox studios in D.C. (5/4): Video
85. Justice Gorsuch is interviewed remotely from his chambers by Hugh Hewitt on his eponymous radio show (5/4): Video
86. Justice Barrett speaks with George W. Bush Presidential Center President and CEO Shilo Brooks at the Center in Dallas (5/4): Video
87. Justice Alito speaks with University of Texas Law Prof. Aaron Nielson at the Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference at The Woodlands Resort in The Woodlands, Tex. (5/5): Announcement; mentioned in this article (no video)
88. Justice Gorsuch is interviewed by CBS News’ Jan Crawford on “CBS Mornings” in the Supreme Court building (aired on 5/5): Video
89. Justice Gorsuch is interviewed by Fox News’ Sandra Smith on “America Reports” from the Fox studios in D.C (5/5): Video
90. Justice Gorsuch and Heroes of 1776 coauthor Janie Nitze are interviewed by the president and CEO of the Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute David Trulio at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (5/5): Video
91. Justice Breyer (ret.) speaks with Ninth Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown and Seventh Circuit Judge Diane Wood (ret.) at a Chicago Bar Association event in Chicago (5/5): Article (no video)
91. Chief Justice Roberts speaks with Third Circuit Chief Judge Michael Chagares at the circuit’s Judicial Conference in Hershey, Pa. (5/6): Article (no video)
92. Justice Gorsuch is interviewed by New York Times columnist David French in the Supreme Court building (aired on 5/6): Video
93. Justice Gorsuch is interviewed by Megyn Kelly on her eponymous SiriusXM podcast (aired on 5/6): Video 1 and video 2
94. Justice Gorsuch is interviewed by ABC News’ Linsey Davis for “All Access” in the Supreme Court building (aired on 5/6): Video
95. Justice Gorsuch and coauthor Janie Nitze speak with President of Chapman University Matt Parlow at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. (5/6): Video
96. Justice Gorsuch meets with high school students as part of a civic learning session at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif. (5/6): Photos (no video)
97. Justice Kavanaugh runs in the ACLI Capital Challenge race in D.C. (5/6): Article (no video)
98. Justice Jackson attends a dinner in her honor cooked by L.A.-based celebrity chef Alisa Reynolds (likely 5/6): Post (no video)
99. Justice Alito swears in Texas Supreme Court Justice Kyle Hawkins in Austin (5/7): Article (no video)
100. Justice Gorsuch is interviewed by Fox News’ Breanne Deppisch for Fox News Digital (ran on 5/7): Article (no video)
101. Justice Gorsuch responds to written questions from USA TODAY’s Maureen Groppe (ran on 5/9): Article (no video)
102. Justice Gorsuch pens op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (ran on 5/9): Op-ed
103. Justice Gorsuch and coauthor Janie Nitze were scheduled to speak at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas (5/9): Announcement
104. Justice Barrett speaks with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Board Chair Olivia Walton at the Heartland Whole Health Institute on the Crystal Bridges Campus in Bentonville, Ark. (5/9): News report (no full video)
105. Justice Gorsuch was interviewed by C-SPAN’s Peter Slen for “Q&A” in the Supreme Court building (airing on 5/10): Audio; video expected at a later date