Posted by Joshua Claybourn on 27 September 2005 | 3 responses
Thanks to certain members of the ITA family, I was alerted to a new Senate bill aimed at televising US Supreme Court proceedings. You can read about the bill and its legal background at Indiana Barrister.
Article III, Section 2 reads, “In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”
Can they even do that? I mean, I thought the Supreme Court determined its own rules and procedures…
Article III, Section 2 reads, “In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.”
It will be determined to be unconstitutional…