Supreme Court by members of the press since at least the 1970s, 3 and on numerous occasions Congress has tried to pass legislation permitting cameras in the Supreme Court. There have been efforts to introduce cameras into the U.S. Ten years later, Justice Kennedy, along with Justice Clarence Thomas, reaffirmed this position when testifying before the House Appropriations subcommittee on transportation, treasury, judiciary, and housing and urban development, which handles the Court’s budget. Justice Kennedy explained that by excluding cameras from the Supreme Court, the Justices signaled to the public that the Court was fundamentally different from the other political branches of government. In justifying their responses, Justice Souter claimed that when he was a judge in New Hampshire, he altered his behavior when a camera was in the courtroom out of fear that his comments would be taken out of context. Justice Kennedy agreed that introducing cameras into the nation’s highest court was a bad idea. Supreme Court proceedings, Souter responded uncharacteristically: “I can tell you the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it’s going to roll over my dead body.” 1 When he and Justice Kennedy were asked of the possibility of televising U.S. Bush, was known as a soft-spoken justice who typically kept out of the limelight. Souter, appointed by President George H.W. 28, 1996, Justices David Souter and Anthony Kennedy testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee to discuss the Supreme Court’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

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