Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan, appearing before House lawmakers, continued to voice the court's entrenched opposition to televising oral arguments
They said the possibility of cameras at hearings on cases -- long advocated by many members of Congress and public interest groups -- had not even been discussed among the nine justices in recent years.RELATED: What to make of Chief Justice John Roberts?Kagan, a 2010 appointee of President Barack Obama, said the topic had not been broached in their private sessions since she joined the bench.
Alito emphasized that the court had become more open through the decades and recalled an era in the 1990s when no transcripts or audio of oral arguments were available to the public. He noted that even when the court began making transcripts of oral arguments available on a daily basis in the early 2000s, the court initially declined to identify the individual justices who asked particular questions.
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