Hot on the heels of a national debate over whether the U.S. Supreme Court should have allowed the taping of arguments this week on health care reform, a panel of District of Columbia judges, attorneys, and journalists sparred Wednesday night over the future of cameras in court.
Some state courts have allowed televised proceedings for decades, but, as in the federal trial courts, cameras historically have not been permitted in local courts in the District of Columbia. The federal judiciary is in the middle of a three-year pilot program studying the effects of cameras in 14 federal trial courts.
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