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Play of the Day: How Television Could Save the Supreme Court

Last Week Tonight takes on the camera ban at the court.

How could television news organizations possibly generate interest in hours-long legal battles? 

It's an impossible mission that's made even more difficult by a ban on cameras in the judicial branch's highest court. 

And while groups have called for more transparency in the Supreme Court's proceedings, comedian John Oliver doesn't believe the little headway that's been made is enough. So he's proposing a genius alternative: reenacting Court arguments using stock footage with "real animals, fake paws."