House Democrats have introduced legislation to ensure that the 2020 election-related federal trial of former President Donald Trump be broadcast nationally.
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) introduced late last week a resolution urging the Judicial Conference, the policymaking body for U.S. courts, to allow criminal proceedings for the former president to be “broadcast to the American public.”
Last week, in a courtroom in Washington, President Trump pled not guilty to four counts related to his and his allies’ alleged efforts to overturn his presidential election loss.
In addition, the report stated that the numerous legal challenges to the 2020 vote count “have been refuted by a variety of judges, State election officials, and the Department of Homeland Security.”
While President Trump was not charged with inciting the Capitol disruption on Jan. 6, 2021, the House Democrats’ text stated that he “led a violent insurrection on the United States Capitol in which a pro-Trump mob breached the Capitol, leaving 5 dead and many more wounded due to the violence he incited.”
Supporting Letter
The resolution is sponsored by six other Democrats, including Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who led a letter (pdf) to the Judicial Conference last week advocating for the televising of this trial and another involving President Trump’s handling of classified documents.“We are writing to request the Judicial Conference explicitly authorize the broadcasting of court proceedings in the cases of United States of America v. Donald J. Trump,” said the letter signed by Mr. Schiff and 37 other members of Congress.
“It is imperative the Conference ensures timely access to accurate and reliable information surrounding these cases and all of their proceedings, given the extraordinary national importance to our democratic institutions and the need for transparency.”
The letter went on to assert that because the Judicial Conference is a policymaking body for federal court, they have traditionally supported an increase in transparency and pushed for the public to have greater access to information regarding the court’s activities.
“Given the historic nature of the charges brought forth in these cases, it is hard to imagine a more powerful circumstance for televised proceedings,” the letter went on. “If the public is to fully accept the outcome, it will be vitally important for it to witness, as directly as possible, how the trials are conducted, the strength of the evidence adduced, and the credibility of witnesses.”
“Let me tell ya ... there was never a second of any day that I didn’t believe that that election was rigged,” President Trump said emphatically to an audience of 2,000 at a Windham, New Hampshire, high school.
Raising his voice, the former president stated, “It was a rigged election, and it was a stolen, disgusting election. And this country should be ashamed ... they go after the people that want to prove that it was rigged and stolen! ... They don’t go after the people that rigged it.”
President Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign did not immediately respond to The Epoch Times’s request for comment.
