YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilitySupreme Court open sessions would be shown on TV unless most justices vote that filming would violate a party's due process rights.
Transparency & Accountability
The Court would have to let TV cameras cover all of its open sessions. A majority of justices could still block coverage in one case if filming would violate a party's right to a fair legal process.
More about this bill
If you want to watch the Supreme Court at work, you could see it on TV. The Court would have to allow television coverage of all its open sessions. There is one exception. A majority of the justices could vote to block cameras in a particular case. They could do this only if filming would violate the due process rights (the right to a fair legal process) of someone in the case. The rule would be added as a new section of federal law on the courts. The bill sets no separate start date.
Congressional Summary
Cameras in the Courtroom Act This bill requires the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless it decides by majority vote that allowing such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights of any of the parties before the Court.
Legislative Subjects
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- House
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in House
- Action Date
- 2025-03-26
- Date Added
- 2026-10-03
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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