U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments: Archives of Supreme Court oral arguments

Beginning in October Term 2017, Heritage Reporting Corporation has provided the oral argument transcripts that are posted on this website on the same day an argument is heard by the Supreme Court. Same-day transcripts are considered official but subject to final review. These and earlier Terms’ transcripts are permanently archived on this website. Transcripts on this site go back to 1968.

Lexis Advance contains oral argument transcripts beginning with the 1979 term.

Westlaw Next contains oral argument transcripts beginning with the 1990 term.

A complete source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. For more information about the completion of the project, see the recent interview with project founder Jerry Goldman in the NPR story "Once Under Wraps, Supreme Court Audio Trove Now Online."

The Court began audio recording oral arguments in 1955. The audio recordings of all oral arguments heard by the Supreme Court of the United States are available to the public at the end of each argument week. The audio recordings are posted on Fridays after Conference. The public may either download the audio files or listen to the recordings on the Court’s website. The audio recordings are listed by case name, docket number, and the date of oral argument.
This site includes arguments going back to 2010. For earlier argument audio, see the National Archives site (below).

The Moving Image and Sound Branch at the National Archives at College Park houses audio recordings of Supreme Court oral arguments. Many of these recordings have been digitized and made available in the National Archives Catalog. Some oral arguments between 1955 and 1972 are available online.

CourtListener catalogues oral argument audio that has been collected by the by Free Law Project, a non-profit devoted to high-quality legal data, from court websites. The website has Supreme Court audio recordings going back to 2013.