U.S. Supreme Court
Nov. 19, 2014
Let's lift the high court's curtain
Far too much of what goes on in the U.S. Supreme Court is done in secret and without any explanation from the justices
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
Far too much of what goes on in the U.S. Supreme Court is done in secret and without any explanation from the justices. There is a need for much greater transparency from a court whose decisions affect all of us, often in the most important and intimate aspects of our lives.
A recent example of this occurred a few weeks ago, on Saturday morning, Oct. 18. The justices, in a 6-3 ruling, without a word of explanation, allowed Texas' restrictive voter identification law to go into eff...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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