Fifteen years after an initial foray into early 20th century broadcast technology left the federal judiciary no closer to allowing news cameras inside the U.S. Supreme Court, the Judicial Conference of the United States has once again voted not to expand a pilot program that allowed for video coverage in federal courtrooms.
The first pilot, conducted in six district and two appeals courts from 1991 to 1994, ended in disappointment for transparency advocates when, despite a positive review from the judiciary’s research arm and most participating judges, the conference decided to discontinue the program. A year later it allowed for each appeals court in the country to decide for itself whether to allow cameras, and to this day, only two of 13 do — the same ones that were part of the earlier pilot.
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