# "Running of the Interns", a time-honored D.C. tradition **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-of-the-interns-a-time-honored-d-c-tradition/942593 "2021-05-21T03:27:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-of-the-interns-a-time-honored-d-c-tradition/942593/1 "2021-05-21T03:27:11Z")
You know how the Supreme Court doesn’t allow recording devices in the courtroom? Well, the best way to get news of the decision to the network is to have an intern literally sprint from the courthouse to the press parked on the street, printouts of the decision in hand. It’s sometimes described as a race, and people gathered around the courthouse will cheer the interns on. Buzzfeed had a great article about it, from 2013. And here’s an interview of two interns from 2016 on CBS. > **[The 2013 Running Of The Interns](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bennyjohnson/the-2013-running-of-the-interns)** > > A Supreme Court special edition. > **[The 2016 running of the interns](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-running-of-the-interns-2016/)** > > It's the annual Supreme Court Sprint--even with the rise of the internet, the decisions are printed and sprinted from press room to on-air reporters ~Max Nothing recent prompted this. In fact, because of COVID, there probably hasn’t been a running of the interns recently. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-of-the-interns-a-time-honored-d-c-tradition/942593/2 "2021-05-21T03:34:34Z")
When I saw the title the immediate thing that popped into my head was the running of the bulls. Except I thought of Bob Packwood being released and all the interns running from him. Is this what dementia is like? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-of-the-interns-a-time-honored-d-c-tradition/942593/3 "2021-05-21T03:41:53Z")
My first thought when seeing the title was, “So, instead of running with the bulls, they are running from the bullshit?” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2021, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-of-the-interns-a-time-honored-d-c-tradition/942593/4 "2021-05-21T11:13:49Z")
My gf was in DC on business years ago. She texted me that she was having a great time at the drag races. I was confused. I couldn’t imagine there being a race track in DC, and even if there was, I couldn’t imagine her attending. [Man, did I feel stupid.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Heel_Drag_Queen_Race) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-of-the-interns-a-time-honored-d-c-tradition/942593/5 "2021-05-24T14:29:17Z")
From the thread title, I imagined a horde of interns fleeing the ER after an Ebola patient came in. 😬 ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/running-of-the-interns-a-time-honored-d-c-tradition/942593/6 "2021-05-24T14:33:53Z")
My cousin used to work at CNN in DC and they would look for interns with a track background. When the Star Report was released to the press, my cousin’s job was to race back with it to CNN (it was on discs), an intern rode with him with the express task that if my cousin got in an accident, in a traffic jam, or otherwise delayed, the intern was to jump out of the car and run the rest of the way to CNN.