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Specter Introduces Supreme Court Camera Bill

By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/29/2007 10:01:00 AM

Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has re-introduced a bill that would instruct the Supreme Court to allow TV cameras to cover the judicial action unless a majority of the Justices opposed it.   The bill, co-sponsored by Republican Senators Charles Grassley (Iowa), John Cornwyn (Tex.), and Democrats Richard Durbin (Ill.), Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Russ Feingold (Wis.), would allow cameras in all open sessions unless a majority ruled that the coverage would violate due process.   Specter tried unsuccessfully to pass a similar bill in the last Congress, when he was chair of the Judiciary Committee.
 

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