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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2361 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings. |
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| 6 | 6 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 7 | 7 | | MARCH26, 2025 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Mr. C |
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| 9 | 9 | | ONNOLLYintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 10 | 10 | | Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 11 | 11 | | A BILL |
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| 12 | 12 | | To permit the televising of Supreme Court proceedings. |
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| 13 | 13 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 14 | 14 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 15 | 15 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 16 | 16 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Cameras in the Court-4 |
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| 17 | 17 | | room Act’’. 5 |
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| 18 | 18 | | SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO TITLE 28. 6 |
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| 19 | 19 | | (a) I |
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| 20 | 20 | | NGENERAL.—Chapter 45 of title 28, United 7 |
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| 21 | 21 | | States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-8 |
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| 22 | 22 | | lowing: 9 |
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| 23 | 23 | | ‘‘§ 678. Televising Supreme Court proceedings 10 |
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| 24 | 24 | | ‘‘The Supreme Court shall permit television coverage 11 |
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| 25 | 25 | | of all open sessions of the Court unless the Court decides, 12 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •HR 2361 IH |
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| 29 | 29 | | by a vote of the majority of justices, that allowing such 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | coverage in a particular case would constitute a violation 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | of the due process rights of one or more of the parties 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | before the Court.’’. 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (b) C |
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| 34 | 34 | | LERICALAMENDMENT.—The chapter analysis 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | for chapter 45 of title 28, United States Code, is amended 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | by adding at the end the following: 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ‘‘678. Televising Supreme Court proceedings.’’. |
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| 38 | 38 | | Æ |
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