The Supreme Court on Wednesday indefinitely blocked cameras from covering the high-profile federal court trial on the constitutionality of California’s ban on same-sex marriage.

The high court split 5-4 Wednesday, with the conservative justices in the majority.

Now in its third day, the trial in federal court in San Francisco concerns the state’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage.

The presiding judge, Vaughn R. Walker, had proposed posting recordings of the trial on the court’s Web site after several hours of delay and allowing real-time streaming of the proceedings for viewing in other federal courthouses in California, New York, Oregon and Washington.

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