Congress, comprised of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall, from this day forward, be referred to as Dumb and Dumber. In the Anglo-American legal tradition, ideally, courts are elevated above the morass of public clamor, political crassness, personal bias, and petty idiosyncracies to perform the solemn task of deciding competing factual claims in accordance with objectively neutral law. The high mark of secular justice in the advanced stage of modem nations is the separation of justice from general politics. (Wigmore, 1 A Panorama of the Worlds Legal Systems 319 (1928). In a Nation where the media at worst creates, and least misinterprets, only the news it wants to report, the publics emotive reactions would become the medias recognized perception of the trial. They would then take that perception, twist and turn it to whatever their advantage, and belch out their opinions the next morning via impartial analysis and investigative journalism. If the juries and other trial participants are not sequestered, that false narrative and public emotion will then become a form of technological tampering that will taint the proceedings with political and emotional input from the peanut gallery. The majority of cases before the courts are not precedent setting. They are comprised of highly personal disputes involving intimate details taken from the personal lives of everyday citizens such as you and me. Televising trials would introduce an element of prurient voyeurism that would be prejudicial to the very judicial process it seeks to showcase by infecting it with political bias of all kinds, whether petty, personal or demographic. This simply cannot be allowed. Leave the carnival to the likes of P.T. Barnum, maintain the dignity and decorum befitting the U.S. Courts, and keep the cameras on the steps of the courthouses. ~ Styxx Minuteman Militia
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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