There’s a Basketball Net Atop the Supreme Court Dubbed the ‘Highest Court in the Land’
Located on the top floor of the Supreme Court Building is a basketball court dubbed the ‘Highest Court in the Land’. The gym is 3 floors above the 2nd floor courtroom inside the iconic marble courthouse built in 1935.

Not open to the public, the court has become stuff of legend with physical games amongst the clerks over the years.

According to Atlas Obscura, the court was once a spare room to house journalists but was converted into a gym sometime in the 1940s.

There is however, one cardinal rule that is plastered all over the gym: Never Assume That Court Is Over. If you get caught playing or making noise while court is in session watch out!

 

 

 

 

 

Sources

– The New York Times
– The Salt Lake Tribune
– Atlas Obscura