But this really comes down to a pretty fundamental question, which is do you think the business of the United States courts, when involving the United States itself as a party, ought to be presumptively public business or not, yes or no, subject to the discretion of a judge, employing a reasonable standard to determine whether there are countervailing interests to that presumption of the public business of the public courts being public?
Discussing the public nature of U.S. court proceedings involving the government.
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