court and nbc justice correspondent pete williams, tom goldstein and kimberly adkins-store. pete, take us through the significance today. we hope to see we hope the supreme court will stream it on the website. we are waiting for that to start. the court said yesterday it would start right at noon. is that because they are streaming it because of the covid restrictions on the court? yes, i think that s part of it. of course, the security environment at the court. the big fence that s around it. it won t be the first time we will have seen one of the swearing in ceremonies on television. the first time they did that was for sonia sotomayor. this will be a scaled back version. members of her immediate family. john roberts will start the process. he will give her all justices have to take two oaths of office. not just the constitutional like you see the president take at the inauguration, but they also have to take a judicial oath. roberts will administer one and stephe
the chief justice really seemed sidelined and marginalized, particularly in the dobbs ruling overturns roe and the last two rulings, the chief stepped back, siding with the conservative side, and then with the liberal side, and trying to reassert that. in the years ahead, i think that s what we need to look at, to see if this remains the roberts court or if that 6-3 ma juror til majority tilts it. when you think about justice roberts role, he had been dominant. two years ago we were talking about the roberts court and how he was asserting himself in very important ways. just in this abortion ruling, it seems to an outsider looking in that after the draft, after the leaked draft, which was so devastating to the court, so