Are you wondering just what it was that Supreme Court
Justice Clarence Thomas said upon breaking his seven-year silence in court
during the case of Boyer v. Louisiana?
How about hearing it for yourself? Well
there is a website for that called Oyez.org.
Oyez.org was founded to “be a complete and authoritative
source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a
recording system in October 1955.” On the site you can find information on each
case decided in the United States Supreme Court beginning with the very first
case Chisolm v. Georgia .
The case profiles
includes: the
question posed; a case
summary;
docket information; Blue Book, MLA, and Chicago Manual of Style citation, a
visual representation of how each justice voted, and (when available) an audio
recording of the arguments in court. The
website also features biographies of all the Supreme Court Justices that have
ever served.
Perhaps one of the more interesting aspects of the website
is the virtual tour of the United States Supreme Court itself. You can view both the exterior and interior
of the court, including the courtroom, conference rooms, library, and several
of the justices’ chambers.
There are also two separate apps for mobile users who want
to access information from Oyez.org: Pocket Justice and OyezToday.
