So under their judgment and discretion. To protect the jurors from any kind of exposure and they cannot be exposed to the Media Coverage alongside that and again, we dont force them to open up this but we provide them the opportunity to do so. And there may be an argument about where this jurisdiction to provide this Statutory Authority comes from and the congress establishes the courts. And in article three, its clear that we write these regulations and i might expand that definition in another venue. But we need to be expanding the Public Access and open up the machinery of government. When i hear a member during the Bush Administration make comments to be appointed president , well, there is a bit of, i will say, suspicion about what went on in the courtroom that very few people have an opportunity to witness. And most of us, we had to rely upon the opponents analysis and perhaps the legal analysis that informed what the decision really was in the courtroom. It isnt an iti objective
Relative merits will benefit our consideration. I particularly want to thank mr. King and mr. Shack bow for their work chabot for their work and congresswoman lofgren and congressmann deutch for their work. This deserves careful consideration by the committee. I yield back. Thank you. I would now like to recognize the full Committee Ranking members, the distinguished gentleman from michigan, congressman conyers. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I wanted to begin by mentioning that our colleague from new york, mr. Indiana nadler, wanted to be here today but he is at the Supreme Court where there is oral argument going on in a very important case, and i wanted his absence to be noted and that he is very concerned about the proceedings taking place here in the Judiciary Committee. The sunshine in courtroom act, of course, would authorize photography, electronic recording, broadcasting, or televising of any Court Proceeding held in the Federal District court. And in the Circuit Court of
We begin with steppedup tensions on the crimean peninsula. One day after russian president Vladimir Putin signed the treaty making crimea part of russia, they stormed the naval headquarters there. In ukraine the acting Prime Minister ordering two deputies to crimea to prevent any further escalation. Phil is in kiev with the latest. Lets start off with crimea. Tell us about the standoff at the Ukrainian Naval base. Reporter del, what happened down at the naval headquarters is Russian Troops in conjunction with those selfdefense groups those are basically the civilians in fatigues that are helping out with the Russian Troops they busted down the gates and entered into the naval headquarters. They took the commander of Ukrainian Naval forces into custody. The other Navy Personnel fled from the scene, and we are now told they have evacuated that building leaving the russians in control of that Ukrainian Naval base. This came apparently after word from kiev that naval and military personnel
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