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House Democrats press for cameras in federal courts, as Trump trials and Supreme Court session loom
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"You try to read their body language. You watch them and their reactions closely. It's an art. Not a science," Glenn Ivey recalled. "When you're in a jury trial, the last thing on your mind is anything other than the judge and the jury."
Even a television camera would be ignored, Ivey argued.
Ivey, a first-term Democratic member of Congress from Maryland, spent decades as a state and federal prosecutor before winning a seat in the House. Heis now one of a growing number of House Democrats urging support for a new law or new rules allowing television cameras inside United States federal courts.
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It was Labor Day weekend 2003 when Matt Scribner, a local horse farrier and trainer who also competes in long-distance horse races, was on his usual ride in a remote part of the Sierra Nevada foothills — just a few miles northeast of Auburn, California —when he noticed a freshly dug hole along the trail that piqued his curiosity.