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Just say “Bingo!” Or “Dingo!”
A view from the Courtroom
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
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A View from the Courtroom is an inside look at oral arguments and opinion announcements unfolding in real time.
As some Supreme Court podcasters have noted, Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement in late January pushed the so-called Maskgate controversy out of the spotlight.
Today, the justices return to the bench after their long mid-winter recess, and the question in the press room is whether Justice Sonia Sotomayor will return to the bench and other justices will be masked. The omicron variant of COVID-19 had prompted Sotomayor to participate in January’s arguments via an audio feed from her chambers, while all but one of the other justices wore masks on the bench, either some or all of the time. Justice Neil Gorsuch was the much-discussed holdout.
As we wait for the session to begin, the always astute Art Lien notices an object in the courtroom that is not usually there, at least not in so prominent a position. A fire extinguisher is resting on the floor just below and to the left of the bench. Perhaps the court has concluded that certain podcasters are in need of more fodder for their metaphors about the status of the court.


This article was originally published on SCOTUSBlog, the Supreme Court of the United States Blog, on February 22, 2022. It is republished here under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US).
Recommended Citation: Mark Walsh, Just say “Bingo!” Or “Dingo!”, SCOTUSblog (Feb. 22, 2022, 10:18 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/02/just-say-bingo-or-dingo/
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