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"House Members Push Supreme Court Toward Transparency"

By Douglas A. Berman

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The title of this post is the title of this great new piece by Tony Mauro in the Legal Times. Here are excerpts: The annual House hearing called to consider the Supreme Court's budget request began with its usual rituals Thursday morning.... But then a Texas congressman decided to test just how well the justices were listening and whether they would take his heartfelt message to heart -- a strong plea to the Court to ramp up its transparency and public face.... The provocateur was conservative Rep. John Culberson, R-Tex ... [who was] urging the Court to go to the next level of transparency. The justices had already talked about the occasional release of oral argument audio tapes, and of plans for an improved Web site. Culberson said there would be "no logical distinction" between what the Court has already done, and streaming the video of oral argument on the Court's Web site Suddenly, dressed in high-tech clothes, the old debate over cameras in the Supreme Court had been resurrected...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).