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Sen. Chuck Grassley , the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has waded into the fight to allow cameras in court for Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old Utah man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk.

Grassley, who has long supported the idea of allowing cameras into federal courtrooms , where they're currently banned, referred to Kirk's slaying as one of the "pivotal moments in history" and argued that such cases should play out before the public eye.

"I want to compliment Erika Kirk, wife of assassinated conservative leader Charlie Kirk. She has made an emotional appeal to have cameras in the courtroom at the trial of her husband’s [alleged] murderer," he said on the Senate floor Tuesday. "I commend her for this br

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