“Now is the time to build long-term trust in the Supreme Court by permitting cameras in the courtroom,” argues Robert Green at The Hill . …
“Now is the time to build long-term trust in the Supreme Court by permitting cameras in the courtroom,” argues Robert Green at The Hill. Sen. Ben Sasse rightly flagged the “jackassery” of his colleagues in the televised confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, but “it’s not the cameras that make senators appear to be jackasses,” but “how they behave in front of cameras.” Consider the success of live audio of high-court oral arguments, a particular hit with millennials: 58% say the audio has “provided them a more favorable view” of the court. Why? “What the court does day-to-day during oral arguments is not jackassery nor is it likely to become so,” as the proceedings center on “Constitutional rights and law that the high court must resolve.” So adding cameras would “build long-term trust in the Supreme Court.” “Moscow’s strategic ineptitude along with mounting proof that Russia is committing systematic atrocities inside Ukraine” should prevent comparisons to the Iraq War, notes Commentary’s Noah Rothman. But big names on all sides “just can’t help themselves.” In reality, “U.S. forces remain on the ground in Iraq at the invitation of a friendly government in control of the whole of its sovereign territory”: Putin “could only hope to fail… with such aplomb.
