SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE PASSES DURBIN, GRASSLEY BILL TO PUT CAMERAS IN THE SUPREME COURT

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill by voice vote to require open proceedings of the Supreme Court to be televised. The bipartisan Cameras in the Courtroom Act, introduced by U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, would require the Supreme Court to permit television coverage of all open sessions of the Court, unless the Court decides, by a majority vote of the justices, that doing so would constitute a violation of the due process rights of one or more of the parties before the Court.

"It's time to put cam...