Georgia Judge Rules Cameras Will Be Allowed in Courtroom if Trump Indicted

If it makes you feel any better, as a fan of Knowledge Fight, I followed the Alex Jones Sandy Hook defamation trial in Texas pretty closely. Alex did his best to turn the trial into a circus, throwing out deep state conspiracies, complaining about the process and his first amendment rights on the stand, and otherwise showboating. The judge was on top of it and shut it all down, and a lot of that came back to bite him in the ass. It didn't help that Alex kept doing his show while the trial was ongoing and freshly defaimed the plaintiffs and alluded to the jury as being brainwashed liberals.

I'd imagine the same thing happens here. Whether trying to make a circus out of the proceedings helps Trump in the presidential race, I don't know. But it's not going to do him any favors with the judge and jury.

It is nothing to do with transparency. Courtrooms are open to the public in most cases and open the press in all cases. Written transcripts are widely available. It is nothing to do with being able to tell what's happening inside it's the ability of the media to be able to dice and cut little clips for their segments little blurbs little gachas little reaction shots with no context that they can feed to their viewers without any sense of journalistic integrity. Cameras in a courtroom are only about sensationalist media. They have always and always will uproot the actual movement of Justice. We've seen it before we'll see it again here, but probably worse since it's him.

No amount of transparency will prevent his outright lies. It's going to be a total shit show.

Hopefully any kind of jury isn't shown on camera otherwise this is doxxing.

Nothing is going to stop the outright lies

He's a bitch when around anyone with any real authority. I'm for it. I want his followers to see how weak, pitiful, and guilty he really is.

It's tough because the last few high profile cases to allow cameras in the courtroom have if anything shown that too much transparency can be a bad thing, especially when you make a spectacle out of a process that anyone who isn't a trial attorney isn't going to properly understand, but will certainly draw their own conclusions regardless

I just hope Nebraska is growing enough corn for the future popcorn needs.

Doubt.

Glad I can listen to the audio while at work at least.

Just like when we were all watching the insurrection instead of working on jan 6th

Me: sorry can't come into work today, I gotta watch Trump get roasted in Georgia.

When inside thoughts become outside words

Username fits

This patriot has the bluest balls in the country. I do hope my basement doesn't flood, the forecast for my area sounds pretty dire.

Yes

I believe cameras aren't allowed in federal courtrooms because it prevents jurors from being identified and threatened/blackmailed.

I’m going to assume it’s because of the shitshow that was the OJ trial.

It's hard to say. Honestly, I think the GOP is in a pinch. They want the turnout that trump affords them but they also want him out of the way as clean as possible. When MAGA people come to the realization that the GOP is trying the bait and switch, shit will really get spicy.

Exactly this. This was a lesson learned in 1923 that we seem to have forgotten a hundred years later.

lol

Yeah. I wonder "if" fire is actually hot or "if" the ocean is wet.

I just want to see his illiterate ass get asked to read something out loud

Honestly that spin sounds like a pretty good reason to keep the media out.

McBurney apparently leans towards broadcasting everything.

It's corrupt but don't think it will apply to this case.

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