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Let the sunshine in ... to SCOTUS and all other federal courts

By Douglas A. Berman

I am extraordinarily pleased to see this news that today the "Senate Judiciary Committee today passed out a bill that would allow TV coverage of all federal courts."  Here's more from Lawrence Hurley's interesting report:The committee has approved similar bills on several occasions in recent years but the legislation, known as the Sunshine in the Courtroom Act, has never been close to becoming law. Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., (pictured) narrowly failed in his attempt to exempt district courts.  His amendment failed on a 9-9 tie.  Cardin had argued that while there is a need to show the inner workings of the appellate process, especially the Supreme Court, trials in district court are more problematic.  That's because the media would not cover trials from gavel to gavel, he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 06, 2008 (boomark / email).