With the Supreme Court nomination process for Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. on hold until hearings in early January, the Senate Judiciary Committee changed course Wednesday to address whether sessions of the court Alito hopes to join should be televised.
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the committee’s chairman, told a hearing that opening the Supreme Court to television coverage would be "an enormously useful tool for public understanding" and would allow the American people to properly evaluate how their government functions.
Right. Because our inability to tear ourselves away from C-SPAN has turned all of us into such a bunch of political geniuses.