Judge Atlas did not issue a ruling today on the request for a preliminary injunction. I literally just got out of the courtroom. A post will be written later tonight. However, here are the promised sketches. Jackson Jambalaya and WLBT commissioned local artist Bill Wilson to draw several sketches of the proceedings as they took place today. Many thanks to Judge Atlas for giving us permission.
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| Nixon (P) queries Englebreck |
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| Kimberly Turner from SOS testified |
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| Judge Nancy Atlas |
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| True the Vote Attorney Joseph Nixon |
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| Attorney Kristen McDanald & Roy Nicholson |
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| Pieter "Knucklehead" Tiewussen and other attorneys |
5 comments:
He did an amazing job.
Thanks to Bill Wilson & Kingfish. Nice job, Bill.
Great sketches.
The sketches are great, but it's absurd that it's OK to draw a picture in the courtroom but you can't take a photo or use a video camera.
8:48 , the reason that cameras (especially video cameras) are prevented is to keep the media from trying the case in the court of public opinion, from what I understand.
More deeply, it is also to help shore up opinion on the fairness and justice in the legal process. For instance, you might have a cop testify that XYZ happened, based on the evidence in exhibit ABC... but then exhibit ABC is thrown out as being illegally obtained.
If you allow live video feeds, then the prosecution (or the defendant.. whatever the case may be) can post videos of a uniformed cop in a recognizable courtroom giving testimony under oath before a judge. That's bad. Later, if and when the perception reaches the public consciousness, that the cop-in-court video was NOT legit, you have one of two outcomes: either the public does not trust cops, or the public does not trust courts (whether on the grounds that the illegal evidence should have been allowed but the courts corruptly tossed it ... or on grounds that the evidence should have been tossed yet here was this convincing video on teevee all this time which the courts leaked corruptly).
So although it is a fine line -- for instance the secret FISA courts are totally nuts -- I see some logic for keeping cameras out of the normal courtroom process, but permitting drawings. For the same reasons, I see the logic for keeping cameras out of the *inside* of voting-locations (we don't want cameras violating the secret ballot).
That said, I am firmly in favor of cameras for most political and law enforcement operations: video of party conventions, video of traffic stops, video of county meetings, video of arrests/bookings/etc, and C-SPAN are all good things (mostly).
p.s. One of the nice side effects of the no-camera rules, is that sketch artists remain in some demand. As you can see, it is very cool. My kudos to Bill Wilson.
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