The argument seems to be that because there was a disruption that was captured on camera, cameras should be forever banned from the Supreme Court. I would say that it was precisely because there are no cameras in the courtroom that the incident became news. The headlines were not “protest at the Supreme Court” but rather “Video of Supreme Court Taken.”

It wasn’t the images that made the news, but rather the rarity of those images.

The question really is “in this day and age where cameras are so ubiquitous why does there need to be an exception for courts? If courts have ruled that police and other public officials can be filmed doing their jobs, why are judges and courtrooms exempt?

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato