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Ginsberg Addresses Confirmation Changes, TV in Supreme Court

  • AP, Sunday, August 29, 2010 11:22 PM
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says television has profoundly changed confirmation hearings but declined to say whether she'd oppose televising arguments. Ginsburg told a Colorado judicial conference Friday that TV has made Supreme Court confirmation hearings much longer because senators posture for cameras.

"The people on the Senate Judiciary Committee have all that free time" to stump for the audience, Ginsburg said. Ginsburg demurred, however, on the question of televising arguments before the high court. She talked about former justices who opposed cameras. Without naming anyone currently on the court, Ginsburg said, "When you're sitting on a collegial bench, if there is any of you who would be extremely discomforted ... you would defer to that colleague."

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