House Democrats press for cameras in federal courts, as Trump trials and Supreme Court session loom

"You try to read their body language.  You watch them and their reactions closely.  It's an art.  Not a science," Glenn Ivey recalled.  "When you're in a jury trial, the last thing on your mind is anything other than the judge and the jury." 

Even a television camera would be ignored, Ivey argued.  

Ivey, a first-term Democratic member of Congress from Maryland, spent decades as a state and federal prosecutor before winning a seat in the House. Heis now one of a growing number of House Democrats urging support for a new law or new rules allowing television cameras inside United States federal courts.