Thursday, July 26, 2012

Justice Scalia: Cameras In The Supreme Court Would “Miseducate” People

In another excerpt from his upcoming interview with C-Span’s Brian Lamb, Justice Antonin Scalia gives some insight into the reasons why he and his fellow Justices continue to resist the idea of cameras in the courtroom:
(CBS News) Both Democrats and Republicans have for years urged the Supreme Court to allow cameras into the high court, but Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that video footage would only serve to “miseducate the American people.”
In an interview with C-SPAN that will air Sunday, Scalia said that watching remarks from the Supreme Court taken out of context would be more damaging than simply reading the remarks out of context in a newspaper.
“Somehow when you see it live, an excerpt pulled out of an entire, when you see it live, it has a much greater impact,” Scalia told C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. “No, I am sure it will miseducate the American people, not educate.”
The conservative justice said that if the American people watched the court proceedings “gavel to gavel” they would understand “we’re not usually contemplating our navel, ‘should there be a right to this or that, should there be a right to abortion’… That’s not usually what we’re doing. We’re usually dealing with the Internal Revenue Code.”
However, Scalia said that people wouldn’t watch proceedings in their entirety.

Read more: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/justice-scalia-cameras-in-the-supreme-court-would-miseducate-people/

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