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Sponsored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) · 5 active : 1 Republican, 4 Democrats
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 444.
Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2025
This bill establishes a framework to allow federal court proceedings—in district courts, in circuit courts, and at the Supreme Court—to be photographed, recorded, broadcast, or televised. Specifically, it authorizes the presiding judge to permit media coverage of court proceedings, subject to requirements and limitations.
Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
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These members have less than half of the model’s inputs, so their scores are not banded or ranked.
Ideology is each member’s score. The most moderate members of each party sit nearest the center line and highest on the chart. 2 representatives without a DW-NOMINATE score or with insufficient data are not plotted.
Not applicable in the House. There is not enough similar voting history (weight 3.5 of 5.0 needed), so this input is left out of the score rather than counted as missing.
