A SCOTUS Artist Recounts 4 Decades of Sketches | National Law Journal

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"That year of COVID when I didn’t have to go in [to the Supreme Court building] and commute, it's really the commute that convinced me to retire," said Lien, who lives in Maryland. "I was going to stay on until cameras came in. I wanted to be the last court artist."

For more than four decades, artist Art Lien’s sketches have been a reliable window into the courtroom of the U.S. Supreme Court, where they sometimes captured the anger of a dissenting justice, the meaning in a justice’s jabot, or the passion of an advocate. Lien put aside his sketchbook and familiar opera glasses and retired at the end of this past term.

Lien has sketched courts since 1976, including such high-profile arraignments and trials for the Oklahoma City bomber, the Boston marathon bomber, Ronald Reagan shooter John Hinckley Jr., and Sept. 11 al-Qaida terrorist Zacharias Moussaoui. But the Supreme Court has been his regular beat almost exclusively since 1980 for NBC news and then for SCOTUSblog.

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