What cameras? None of the civil suits was televised. If you don’t want a legal dog and pony show, you use the CRIMINAL court system not the civil courts.
Civil llawsuit trials tend to be dog and pony shows.
Metaphors go right over your head. I assure you, every judge involved in one of these was all too cognizant of what would have happened had they ruled anything which impugned Obama. That would have been the point at which the cameras ceased to be metaphorical.