their decisions as judge pozner repeatedly said are essentially political. the only secrecy -- i don't want to see their draft opinions. that is fair. i don't want to hear deliberations with law clerks. that's fair. everything they do that's public should be public. and i will give you an example. it's just a small thing but it's not a small thing. justice scalia was at a conference in atlanta last friday. this was a three-day conference. the only person who said you can't tape record, video record my comments is justice scalia and then it turned out that it actually something happened, the supreme court justices, and now no one gets to see it and a public official making a public speech, ranted about how same sex sodomy and abortion are not in the constitution and shouldn't be protected and ranted and got embarrassed at the end and no one saw it. if he's going to come to atlanta and go to the governor's mansion for a reception and appear in front of 500 people in a room and give a public speech, it should be recorded and there's no good reason why we should

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their decisions as judge pozner repeatedly said are essentially political. the only secrecy -- i don't want to see their draft opinions. that is fair. i don't want to hear deliberations with law clerks. that's fair. everything they do that's public should be public. and i will give you an example. it's just a small thing but it's not a small thing. justice scalia was at a conference in atlanta last friday. the only person who said you can't tape record, video record my comments is justice scalia and then it turned out that it actually something happened, the supreme court justices, and now no one gets to see it and a public official making a public speech, ranted about how same sex sodomy and abortion are not in the constitution and shouldn't be protected and ranted and got embarrassed at the end and no one saw it. if he's going to come to atlanta and go to the governor's mansion for a reception and appear in front of 500 people in a room and give a public speech, it should be recorded and there's no good reason why we should have had to accede to his reques

supreme court might be the least transparent court in the united states because at best i am with judge pozner that it is a political court. i in fact don't think it's a court at all. to the except there are transparency issues to begin with judges i don't think the supreme court really counts as a court. i will give you a great example of that. every year thousands and thousands and thousands of people send surpetitions to the supreme court. lawyers spend hundreds of hours working, fee are paid, parties are incredibly vested in this. maybe the most important decision the justices make is which cases to hear because if they don't hear a case, then whatever happened at the appellate level is the final say and we're done. and we don't even know which justices voted to grant cert in a particular case. this is an incredibly important public vote on a matter of public concern and there's simply no reason why we shouldn't know this. and it's relevant, truthful information about a public body. now, they may argue that too much would be read into who decides to grant cert and all of that. but the bott