There is talk from time to time about bringing television cameras into the Supreme Court. Most recently, Sen. Arlen Specter made it the subject of his “closing argument” last December before leaving the Senate, calling on Congress to “require televising the court proceedings to provide some transparency to inform the public about how the Court is the final word on the cutting issues of the day in our society.” Not everyone agrees, including at least some members of the Court itself. Like most debates, this one is not entirely new.
Consider journalists in chambers. Within living memory, there have been at least two episodes involving reporters trying, with mixed success, to get into a Justice’s chambers to witness judicial proceedings (that is, hearings on the sorts of interlocutory matters that individual justices can, in some contexts, decide on their own). One took place in 1948. The other began in the late 1970s and has, in a sense, never ended.
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