COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says television has profoundly changed confirmation hearings but declined to say whether she’d oppose televising arguments in remarks Friday at a Colorado judicial conference.
Ginsburg says TV has made Supreme Court confirmation hearings longer because senators posture for cameras. She also said that today’s Senate is different from the one that confirmed her in 1993.
Ginsburg pointed out that in her own confirmation hearings, she wasn’t asked about being a litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union. Ginsburg said, “That would not happen today.”
Ginsburg didn’t say whether she opposes televising arguments, but said she’d defer if other justices opposed cameras.
