| So the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that the revolution will NOT be telvised. Attorney General candidate Ted Lieu (a miliatary prosecutor himself) has a few choice words for them:
"The goal of the American civil justice system is to seek justice. The Supreme Court's decision to censor the public broadcast of the historic trial to reverse California's Proposition 8 amounts to a fear of too much justice. Our courts are not star chambers, where testimony and rulings are made in secret and hidden from the public.
"The Court majority's rationale that broadcasting this trial will result in "irreparable harm" has no basis in fact. The Court states that witnesses may suffer harm because they are concerned about possible "harassment" if the public actually found out what they will say under oath. Under that rationale, the Court should seal the transcript of this entire proceeding, not allow any non-witness to attend the proceeding, and block newspapers from reporting on this trial.
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I served on active duty in the armed forces because I believe America is the best country in the world. Members of our armed forces have given their blood to defend our democracy and our constitutional liberties, including freedom of the press, which is perhaps the greatest check on governmental overreach. The Court's overreach in censoring the broadcast of this trial is something you would expect from the Supreme Court of Iran, not the Supreme Court of the United States." |
