Dec 14 2011
USA Today: Health Care Case Adds Pressure For Cameras In Supreme Court
Now that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a dispute over the federal health care law, the justices are facing the strongest challenge to their ban on televised hearings. Members of Congress and news industry leaders have asked the court to allow the televising of oral arguments, to be held over five and a half hours during two days in March. A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll found that 72 percent of the people surveyed think the justices should allow cameras for those arguments (Biskupic, 12/12).
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. |