Prop. 8: Trial TV blackout permanent?

Dan82 · Apr 21, 2011

http://www.scotusblog.com/2011/04/prop-8-trial-tv-blackout-permanent/

The Supreme Court’s January 2010 order blocking public TV broadcasting of the trial on the constitutionality of the Proposition 8 ban on amse-sex marriage is a total ban, so the videotape of the trial must remain sealed permanently, the proponents of the marriage measure argued on Thursday. The argument against any replay publicly of the trial videotape came in this reply brief.

It has been 15 months since the last testimony was heard in the case (lawyers’ closing arguments came later, as did the trial judge’s ruling striking down Proposition 8), but the time lapse has not ended the controversy over whether the full videotape of the trial should ever be seen by the public.

The ongoing controversy now turns, in significant part, on conflicting interpretations of the Supreme Court’s 5-4, 17-page decision issued Jan. 13, 2010, when the trial was only in its third day. (An earlier temporary order by the Court blocked TV for the opening days of the trial.) A full videotape does exist, however, and the fate of that recording is now at the center of the legal dispute over access to and uses of it...

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V128 · Apr 22, 2011

The only reason this tape would not be allowed to be seen is because therein lies the absolute, irrefutable truth. By hiding the complete tape from the public, which is a slap in the face to everything this country is supposed to built upon, they are only digging an even deeper hole to fall into when push comes to shove. Such is my opinion.

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