An administrative system in which the need or inclination to follow rigid or complex procedures impedes effective action: innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.

Bureaucrat:
An official of a bureaucracy.
An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure.

Judges are government officials last time I checked and they certainly are devoted to following procedures.

I don’t have a problem with bringing a camera into the courtroom. In Texas, it is probably a matter of making the case to the right people. The guys guarding the courtroom are not the right people. The reason you can bring a camera into NH court rooms is that WMUR petitioned the NH supreme court.

Why are these bureacrats so afraid of being recorded and why do you want them protected Curt? Where there is injustice one should protest or else injustice will spread.

You would seem to free these court officials from any responsibility whatsoever. As it stands now bureacrats simply need follow the law. If they do this, they will have complete impunity in the eyes of the sheeple like yourself. Look where this immunity for bureacrats has led us. Millions of harmless men and women who harmed no one have ended up in jail, costing tax payers billions of dollars and creating victims where there were none before (I am referring in part to drug laws which punish people not for hurting others, but for making a personal choice).

The law creates immunity for the unjust actions of government bureacrats and to think that the law transforms unjust actions into just ones is perhaps the greatest lie ever told.

Petition of WMUR

[Art.] 73-a. [Supreme Court, Administration.] The chief justice of the supreme court shall be the administrative head of all the courts. He shall, with the concurrence of a majority of the supreme court justices, make rules governing the administration of all courts in the state and the practice and procedure to be followed in all such courts. The rules so promulgated shall have the force and effect of law.

November 22, 1978

The last sentence, which is key to this discussion, was controversial at the time. It is alleged that it did not appear on the version that appeared on the ballot of the statewide referendum vote.

Regarding the situation in Texas, I admittedly don’t know much about Texas law. Sam said there was a specific provision in the Texas bill or rights. I found none.

Unless there is a specific clause or code forbidding cameras from the courtroom, then the liberty of such a decision is within the right of any individual to film any proceedings as they happen on public property. If it is legal to attend public hearings and later report on them, how is it not within someone’s rights to tape record or film such a hearing? Unless it is expressly forbidden in the federal or state constitution or unless the right is expressly reserved to one of the branches of government within said constitutions, then the right is reserved to the people. Know your constitutional law

Sam is a jerk, harassing low-level court staff who need their jobs to feed their families (I presume).

Here is a link to the Texas Bill of Rights:
http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/txconst/articles/cn000100.html

Sam should run for judgeship and then tell that guy to go jump in a lake.