As was done with the Health Care cases last term, the Supreme Court will again expedite the release of the oral argument audio recordings for the marriage equality cases scheduled for next week.
The announcement estimated that the audiotapes and transcripts should be available by no later than 1 p.m. on Tuesday for the case involving California’s Proposition 8, and by no later than 2 p.m. Wednesday for the case involving the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The Proposition 8 case is scheduled for one hour of argument; the DOMA case is scheduled for one hour and fifty minutes.
This arrangement breaks from the Court’s usual pattern of releasing the audiotapes only at the end of the week in which a case was heard. Under current practice, written transcripts are available on a same-day basis after the argument. Several news organizations had asked the Court to make the audiotapes available on a same-day basis for the marriage cases.
And if we're really lucky, we'll get some Fox News Republican propaganda hack to do a splice-and-dice on some of it, just like last time.
You'll be able to get the real deal at the Supreme Court website.
Thanks to SCOTUSblog.com for the post.