--- title: Last Week Tonight: John Oliver Takes On Supreme Court Camera Ban description: Plus, he offers up some raw footage so you too can reenact your favorite Supreme Court cases canonical: https://time.com/3524548/john-oliver-supreme-court-camera-ban-cute-dogs/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-20T15:01:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:53.936Z og:title: Watch John Oliver Mock the Supreme Court by Dressing Up Nine Dogs as Justices og:description: Featuring a bulldog as Scalia and a bespectacled chihuahua as Ginsburg og:url: https://time.com/3524548/john-oliver-supreme-court-camera-ban-cute-dogs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteca3189009ff5c6b/698761a28e060140ac457cc5/screen-shot-2014-10-20-at-10-06-55-am.png?branch=production&width=1020&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1020 og:image:height: 574 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-10-20 at 10.06.55 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch John Oliver Mock the Supreme Court by Dressing Up Nine Dogs as Justices twitter:description: Featuring a bulldog as Scalia and a bespectacled chihuahua as Ginsburg twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteca3189009ff5c6b/698761a28e060140ac457cc5/screen-shot-2014-10-20-at-10-06-55-am.png?branch=production&width=1020&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # John Oliver Mocks the Supreme Court's Camera Ban by Dressing Up Dogs as Justices > Sponsored content. 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The _Last Week Tonight_ writers were inspired by the Internet’s beloved feline star [Keyboard Cat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ), who paws away at a keyboard as terrible electronic music plays. “Think about it,” Oliver says. “If someone made you just listen to the audio of that, you would punch them repeatedly in the face. But the visual makes it irresistible. Why? Because a cat’s paws are doing things you wouldn’t expect them to do.” After just a few seconds, Oliver proves this is a _great_ idea. Scalia as a bulldog? Yes. [The Notorious R.B.G.](http://time.com/3523180/ruth-bader-ginsburg-rbg-shirts/) as a bespectacled chihuahua? _Yes._ But wait — there’s more! _Last Week Tonight_ put together a [tool kit featuring 10 minutes of raw footage](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tug71xZL7yc&list=UU3XTzVzaHQEd30rQbuvCtTQ&index=3) so we can all reenact our favorite Supreme Court cases. One guy already did a great job with Florida v. Harris: Okay, everybody else. 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