On the recordMay 7, 2009
When Bush v. Gore was decided, then-Senator Biden and I wrote to Chief Justice Rehnquist asking that television be permitted and got back a prompt answer: 'No.'
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Durbin recalls an unsuccessful attempt to allow television coverage of the Supreme Court.
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