Building housing the Supreme Court of the United States, serving as the official workplace of the Chief Justice of the United States and the eight Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court Building houses the Supreme Court of the United States. Also referred to as "The Marble Palace," the building serves as the official workplace of the Chief Justice of the United States and the eight Associate Justices of the Supreme Court. It is located at 1 First Street in Northeast Washington, D.C., in the block immediately east of the United States Capitol and north of the Library of Congress.
The Supreme Court Building's facilities include:
- Basement: maintenance facilities, garage, on-site mailroom.
- First (or ground) floor: Public information office, the clerk's office, the publications unit, exhibit halls, cafeteria, gift shop and administrative offices.
- Second floor: the Great Hall, the courtroom, the conference room, and all of the justices' chambers.
- Third floor: The office of the Reporter of Decisions, the legal office, and the offices of the law clerks. Also, the justices' dining and reading rooms are on this floor.
- Fourth floor: The court library.
- Fifth floor: The Supreme Court gym.
All visitors to the Court must pass through metal-detectors and have their belongings X-rayed. Cameras are permitted in the building, but no recording devices of any kind, audio, or visual, are ever permitted in the Courtroom. When the Court is not in session, visitors can walk through the Great Hall and public areas on the ground floor, including the cafeteria and a small movie theater presenting a documentary of the Court, and guided lectures are periodically given in the Courtroom, which is not otherwise accessible.
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "United States Supreme Court Building", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
