Not coming soon to the Supreme Court: TV cameras
Fair Courts E-lert
Bibliographic Info:
Author: Mark Sherman
Source: Associated Press
Date: 12/11/2008
Article states that had any of the U.S. Supreme Court justices watched the recent "live television coverage" of an argument made in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on C-SPAN, it would have been an "instructive" experience. C-SPAN "has for years offered to provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Supreme Court," but the Court "does not allow cameras at its proceedings and only rarely authorizes the immediate release of audio recordings of its argument sessions." Both the House and Senate Judiciary committees "have passed legislation in the past two years that would authorize, but not require, cameras in federal courts," however, "neither the full House nor Senate has voted on the legislation."