A new era of leadership for the U.S. Supreme Court should mean that cameras finally come to that hallowed courtroom. Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., has called for cameras for a decade. But under Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the court resisted them on the grounds that they would alter the proceedings and tone and somehow violate justices’ privacy. Nonsense. But even if Roberts accepts cameras, it would be over the objections of justices including Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer and David Souter. “The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it’s going to roll over my dead body,” Souter said in 1996. But the opposition of a justice who doesn’t even own a computer shouldn’t rule the day in 2005.
Posted by Rhonda Holman
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