Supreme Court Asked to Compel Airing of Secret Intelligence Court’s Decisions

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39 points1cvmask5 comments

I would go even further, all court decisions (even if they involve "national security") should always be public. Everything else is fundamentally incompatible with democracy, it's equivalent to secret laws.

That does not mean that things can't be withheld, e.g. names could be redacted, but the main decision should be public, because how else can citizens know about the laws and their application.

> because how else can citizens know about the laws and their application.

Through their elected representatives.

If the court doesn't publish the decisions only a select few of officials will be allowed to see those decisions. Moreover those officials will not be allowed to publicise the decisions, so they can't tell their constituents about them

How will their elected representatives know what the law is if the courts are keeping their decisions secret?

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