The U.S. Supreme Court has posted the transcript of the March 23 oral argument in Watson v Republican National Committee, 24-1260. Like all U.S. Supreme Court transcripts, it has an index of every word (other than extremely common words like “the”) spoken. Here is the transcript.

Even though the Libertarian Party of Mississippi is a party to the case, that seems to have made no difference. No attorney and no justice made reference to the Libertarian Party of Mississippi. The index does not include the word “Libertarian.”

The Mississippi Libertarian Party is on the same side as the Republican National Committee. Both parties believe that when Congress in 1872 told states to hold congressional elections on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, that implicitly meant that all ballots must be received by the election administrators by the end of election day.

Some of the justices seemed to concentrate on some extremely unlikely hypotheticals. For example, Justice Gorsuch seemed fascinated by the idea that voters who used the postal service could ask the postal service to return their ballots after that voter had already put the ballot in the mail. He felt this might happen if there was a revelation of a scandal that became known the date after election day.