“The Judicial Conference of the United States on Tuesday approved a change to its broadcast policy that expands the public’s access to civil and bankruptcy proceedings… [blah blah blah] …The change approved Tuesday does not extend to criminal proceedings. Temporary permission to conduct some criminal proceedings by videoconference or teleconference, which had been granted under the 2020 CARES Act, ended on May 10, 2023. Courts have already discontinued use of virtual criminal proceedings, except as otherwise authorized,” says a public access policy update from the federal Judicial Conference, the body that could’ve more or less unilaterally allowed TV cameras in fat former President Trump’s two upcoming federal criminal trials if they wanted to or, at the very least, left it up to Judges Tanya Chutkan and Aileen Cannon to make the call in their courtrooms.
They’ll meet again in March, just as Trump’s first trial in DC is scheduled to get underway. Not knowing anything else about how these decisions are made, we would rate it as not especially likely that they’ll change their minds or, even if they did, that such change could be implemented in a timely fashion where suddenly news crews are allowed in the door during the trial of the century.