It's time to allow television cameras into the nation's courtrooms "to give the public a full and fair picture of what goes on," says the chief judge of the federal appeals court in San Francisco - with a swipe at the U.S. Supreme Court for blocking video coverage of the Proposition 8 trial.

Televising court proceedings would increase public respect for the justice system and might also improve trials, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in the Fordham University law review.