C-SPAN, CNN, ABC News, CBS News, and Univision are among a group of media organizations that have filed a motion urging greater media access to former President Donald Trump‘s historic upcoming trial for alleged election interference, which will be held in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
TV Newser reports a total of 20 companies from the print, radio, digital, and TV worlds banded together to file this motion, seeking access to the trial scheduled for March 4, 2024.
The motion, filed on Thursday by this media coalition, was a request to record and broadcast the trial by the media, or by the Court publishing its own livestream on YouTube; or releasing video/audio at the end of each trial day.
The former president will spend a lot of time in the courtroom in the upcoming year as he will face 91 felony counts in four criminal cases spread across Washington D.C., New York, Florida, and Georgia.
So far, the Georgia-based case is the only one that will provide access to live proceedings from inside the courtroom. The proceedings will be live-streamed from the Fulton County Superior Court’s YouTube page. This feed will be able to be picked up and used by news organizations.
The Coalition is asking for this exception due to the uniquely high public interest in this case and the unprecedented nature of the trial of a former president. The Coalition advocates this exception as an opportunity for the American public to assess the process and results for themselves in real-time.
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