SCOTUStoday for Tuesday, March 31

SCOTUStoday for Tuesday, March 31

Featured Content: The Box Count

If you regularly attend our opinion day live blogs, you’ve likely noticed that certain questions come up nearly every time. For example:

• Do we know in advance which opinions are coming? (No.)
• Is live audio available from the courtroom during opinion announcements? (Also no.)
• And how many boxes are there? (It varies.)

The box question typically sparks a series of additional questions from blog newcomers and veterans alike. What are these boxes you’re speaking of? Why do they matter? And, more recently, do the boxes seem heavy or light?

Let us take those questions in order.

What Are These Boxes?

The boxes are literal cardboard boxes, usually made of light blue material. They look something like this. The Supreme Court’s Public Information Office (PIO) uses these boxes to bring copies of soon-to-be-released opinions to members of the press. A member of the PIO team lifts them onto desks in the

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