A bill to permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends the federal judicial code to require the U.S. Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court unless the justices decide, by majority vote, that such coverage in a particular case would violate the due process rights of one or more of the parties before the Court.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1768 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1768

         To permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 26, 2005

    Mr. Specter (for himself, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Allen, Mr. 
Grassley, Mr. Schumer, and Mr. Feingold) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
         To permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT TO TITLE 28.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 45 of title 28, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting at the end the following:
``Sec. 678. Televising Supreme Court proceedings
    ``The Supreme Court shall permit television coverage of all open 
sessions of the Court unless the Court decides, by a vote of the 
majority of justices, that allowing such coverage in a particular case 
would constitute a violation of the due process rights of 1 or more of 
the parties before the Court.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The chapter analysis for chapter 45 of 
title 28, United States Code, is amended by inserting at the end the 
following:

``678. Televising Supreme Court proceedings.''.
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