For a long time there’s been a debate over whether cameras should be allowed inside the Supreme Court, so that oral arguments can be posted in their entirety on the internet. And every time the issue came up, Justice Scalia was one of the most vocal opponents of the idea. As Scalia put it, “what most of the American people would see would be 30-second, 15-second takeouts from our arguments. … I am sure it will mis-educate the American people.”
A lot of people dismissed Scalia’s reasoning at the time. After all, how could the media successfully distort footage that everyone has access to? But all these years later, it’s hard to think of a greater vindication of Scalia’s point of view than what happened on Friday, following Donald Trump and JD Vance’s meeting with Ukraine’s president in the Oval Office. Within minutes, footage from this meeting was available, in its…
