Jeff Merkley: “Were the opinions of this court, established by law-- and, yes, it is transparent to the public that the court exists.…”

“Were the opinions of this court, established by law-- and, yes, it is transparent to the public that the court exists. But the question of secrecy is not one of whether it exists; it is a question of whether the process is open in any feasible way to debate between two points of view. Did the Senator from North Carolina know that the opinions of the court, including interpretations of the law, were never disclosed to the American public and were, in fact, kept secret?”