Podesta Responds To Roberts’ ‘Troubling’ Comment With Call For Supreme Court To Be Televised

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/14/podesta-supreme-court/

At the State of the Union earlier this year, President Obama denounced the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling that invalidated a sixty-three year-old ban on corporate money in federal elections as the members of the court looked on. “I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests or, worse, by foreign entities,” said Obama. “They should be decided by the American people.”

At the University of Alabama this week, Chief Justice John Roberts called the scene at the State of the Union “very troubling.” “To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, I’m not sure why we’re there,” said Roberts. On Fox News Sunday today, Center for American Progress President and CEO John Podesta said Roberts’ complaint was “a little disingenuous” and suggested that the Supreme Court open its hearings to television cameras:

PODESTA: Well, look, I think it’s a little disingenuous. I don’t think Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts, felt too bad when he was at President Bush’s pep rallies. But I would actually offer him a compromise, which is the Supreme Court stop going to the State of the Union and in exchange they start broadcasting, on C-SPAN or otherwise, their decisions. So that when they issue a decision reversing a hundred years of precedent, let all this corporate money flow into the political system, do it on television so the American people can see it.

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video at the link.

Not that the thuglicans would watch. They would wait for Mooseburger Sarah to interpret for them.

[tularetom]

1. Fox actually had somebody from the Center for American Progress on their show?

I'm impressed.

[Ian David]

2. Televising the Supreme Court would be cheap, because Thomas wouldn't need to be mic'ed.

But then again, they'd need someone to occasionally bleep Scalia.

[progressoid]

4. They could just put a carboard cut-out in his chair and no one would know the difference.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. USSC cannot afford to be televised. It would open up what they do

and how they do it to the general public, and that would doom the neocon catholic cabal on the bench.

Much like a light causes cockroaches to scatter from the kitchen, or congressmen to retire when their crimes are exposed, the Robes really do not want any public scrutiny.