With all the rocks we’d be throwing at our televisions, very few sets would be left to view this clown show.

Oh, and take a moment to check out the image inside the blockquote. Does the phrase “thick as thieves” come to mind?

Alito: Few would watch Supreme Court TV

National Italian American Foundation awardee and Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, center, flanked by U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, right, and Samuel Alito Jr.

WASHINGTON - Justice Samuel Alito doubts the public is clamoring for Supreme Court sessions to be televised and predicts they would battle Congress for last place in the ratings.

Alito said Friday that the same-day availability of oral argument transcripts on the Internet and extensive media coverage means the “only thing missing is pictures of the justices and the lawyers with their lips moving as they ask and answer questions.”

“I am concerned that if our arguments were televised we’d be competing neck and neck with Congress … for the lowest ratings that have ever been recorded by the Nielsen system,” Alito said in an often humorous speech at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics conference on the need for major changes to the Constitution.

Alito refrained from addressing specific proposed reforms, including those dealing with electing Congress and the president or ending lifetime tenure for Supreme Court justices.

“There are very strong reasons to be wary about wholesale or dramatic constitutional change,” he said.

MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press

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