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The prospects of Donald Trump’s two upcoming federal criminal trials being televised are not looking good. According to the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules, there is no way for it to get around the prohibition on cameras in the courtroom in time for Trump’s trials.
“We have an absolute rule,” Duke Law Professor Sara Sun Beale, the panel’s recorder, told Politico. “We have no authority to authorize exceptions to an across-the-board, straight rule.” U.S. District Judge James Dever, the head of the committee, said that the soonest it could change the rule would be 2026 or even 2027. That’s how nimble and responsive the court system is. But! The committee is establishing a subcommittee to look into the issue, which I believe is bureaucracy-speak for “If we stall long enough, will you forget about this?”
