So Ordered

What this is

So Ordered publishes complete, unabridged readings of U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions. The Court does not release recordings of justices reading their own opinions from the bench in full, so this project fills that gap using AI voice synthesis.

Each episode has two parts:

1. A short neutral-voice introduction — the case name and docket number, a brief factual summary drawn from the Court’s own published syllabus and Questions Presented, the holding and vote breakdown, and an explicit AI disclosure.
2. The full majority opinion, read start to finish in a synthesized voice cloned from the authoring justice’s publicly available oral-argument audio.

The text read aloud is the verbatim opinion as published by the Supreme Court. Nothing is summarized, paraphrased, or editorialized.

Why

Supreme Court opinions are public-domain government works, but they are written to be read, not heard. A spoken full reading makes them accessible while commuting, exercising, or away from a screen — without the gloss of a host’s interpretation between you and the Court’s own words.

Sourcing & licensing

Opinion text comes directly from supremecourt.gov. U.S. Supreme Court opinions are works of the federal government and are in the public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105). This podcast’s audio is released under CC0.