Washington Justice Stephen Breyer on Monday reflected on the Supreme Court's return to in-person oral arguments earlier that day, saying he prefers the high court's usual structure over the virtual system the nine jurists had started using just after the Covid-19 pandemic paralyzed much of the country last year.
In a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Joan Biskupic at an event hosted by the Smithsonian Associates, Breyer, the court's senior liberal justice, shared details about life at the court amid the pandemic, explaining how the phone system that was set up for virtual oral arguments in March 2020 made it more difficult for justices to try to grasp where their colleagues were on a particular issue. "I mean you can't really see what the people look like, how are they reacting.
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