Flake Thompson News Today

Working with the commuter Reporters Committee for the freedom of the press. We put together the coalition for court transparency. It was a single issue group with five or six clients. I was a part of a Consulting Firm in d. C. , and the issue was ending the broadcast media in the federal judiciary. From the federal level to the Supreme Court, we had 20 different groups together, and pressed various different forms as lobbying, media, it going on tv, programs like this, trying to get cameras in t...

That cspan covered, i realized it wasnt just the issue of a lack of broadcast media inside the courtroom that made the Supreme Court very opaque. It wasnt just the cameras issue. It was the fact that they dont follow the same ethics rules as every other federal judge, the fact that they serve for life as opposed to most other democracies where there is a retirement age or a term limit. And, they dont put information online. They dont say when justice cane is speaking in massachusetts or in georg...