Should Supreme Court proceedings be televised?

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Absolutely not. If this happens, the networks are going to pull out two minute or one minute segments they want to highlight, and give a horribly distorted view of the process.

[A18]

Oral arguments are typically one hour, not four, by the way.

I vote no.  All it does is change the hearings from one of trying to gauge if the candidate is qualified for the position to one where the Congressmen grandstand and try to make political speeches.

Uh, I'm not talking about confirmation hearings.

[A18]

It's true that they offer a distorted view of just about everything. But we shouldn't be giving them ammo to distort the judiciary process.