Originally published December 8 2005
Supreme Court to release audio recordings of upcoming decisions
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Following a precedent established in the electoral arguments of 2000, the Supreme Court has announced it will release audio recordings of argument sessions involving two major cases, including a parental consent abortion law from New Hampshire on November 30 and Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, on December 6.
The Supreme Court will release audio tapes immediately after argument sessions in upcoming cases involving abortion rights and a protest of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays.
Television cameras are barred from the court and reporters are not allowed to use tape recorders.
In major cases the court releases same-day audio tapes, which were first used in response to news media requests in 2000 when the court heard Florida ballot recount appeals that determined the outcome of the presidential election.
The court announced Friday that it had decided to follow the same procedure for the Nov. 30 argument about New Hampshire's parental consent abortion law and the Dec. 6 argument in a case that asks if the government can withhold federal funds from colleges that bar military recruiters in protest of the policy on gays.
The court tapes each argument and usually releases recordings at the end of the term.
In recent years same-day audio tapes have been allowed in cases about the government's response to terrorism, Vice President Dick Cheney's closed-door sessions to develop a national energy policy, affirmative action and campaign finance regulations.
These audio tapes will be the first allowed since Chief Justice John Roberts took the bench.
The cases are Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood, 04-1144, and Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, 04-1152.
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