Although arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court are not video-recorded, you can watch many of its justices questioning oralists and presiding over cases—within the State of Ames. Visit Harvard Law School’s archive of video recordings of the final rounds of the Ames Moot Court Competition. In addition to many lower court judges, you will find 17 SCOTUS justices, including Thurgood Marshall (who first presided in 1974, the first year for which there is video); John G. Roberts Jr. ’79, chief justice of the United States; and most recently Sonia Sotomayor. (The dates of their appearances captured on video are included in the slideshow.)
![Thurgood Marshall at Ames 1977](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1977_THURGOODMARSHALL_1977__Ames_judges_wright_marshall_hennessey.jpg)
![Justice Lewis Powell Jr. Ames 1976](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/POWELL_Lewis_US_Supreme_Court_Justice_Lewis_Powell_-_1976_official_portrait.jpg)
![Justice John Paul Stevens Ames 2016](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2016_STEVENS_2016_11_01_Ames2016-Final-Round-Competition_MStewart176-1.jpg)
![Justice Warren Burger Ames 1978](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1978_BURGER_1978_Ames_Judges_Goldberg_Burger_Mckosick.jpg)
![Justice Stewart Potter 1979 Ames](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1979_STEWART_Ames_Judges_Kravitch_Stewart_Pollak.jpg)
![Justice Blackmun Ames](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1980_BLACKMUN_1980_Ames_HLB_p.10-e1548794615636a.jpg)
![Sandra Day O'Connor Ames 1982](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1982_OCONNOR_1982_OCONNOR_Ames_Judges_Gibbons_OConnor_Ginsburg_1982_-2_16_60.1982.jpg)
![Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ames](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2013_GINSBURG_10_23_13_Ames_Moot_Court_2013_MStewart118.jpg)
![William Brennan Ames 1984](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1984_BRENNAN_1984_Ames_Judges_1984_-2_16_70.1984.breyer.brennan.higginbotham.jpg)
![Stephen Breyer Ames](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2008_BREYER_2008__Ames_Farnsworth_111808_143.jpg)
![William Rehnquist Ames 1985](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Rehnquist_Ames-2_16_9051-e1548794542315.jpg)
![Justice Scalia Ames](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/supreme-viewing-a-deep-bench-2.jpg)
![Anthony Kennedy Ames 1989](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1989_Kennedy_Ames_Judges_Kennedy_Motley_Noonan.jpg)
![David Souter Ames](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/SOUTER_2014_11_14_12Ames_Farnsworth176.jpg)
![Chief Justice John Roberts Ames](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ROBERTS_2017_01_Justice-roberts_DSC_5217.jpg)
![Justice Sonia Sotomayor Ames](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2018_11_13_AmesCompetition171_MStewart.jpg)
![Justice Elena Kagan Ames 2015](https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/2015_KAGAN_2015_Ames-Moot-Court-143_MStewart_optimized.jpg)