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Judicial Secrecy: Where Justice Goes to Die
Knapp, Thomas
http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/22/judicial-secrecy-where-justice-goes-to-die-2/Date Written: 2019-02-22 Publisher: Counterpunch Year Published: 2019 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23511 The trend of courts imposing gag orders and press bans on judicial proceedings is a hallmark of police states and a threat to freedom and justice. Abstract: -- Excerpt: Secret proceedings. Secret subpoenas. Secret juries. Secret alleged victims. Always with excuses, some more or less convincing than others. And all flagrantly in violation of the First Amendment's free speech clause and the Sixth Amendment's public trial clause. Nowhere in the Constitution is there mentioned any prerogative of government to operate in secret or to forbid public comment by anyone. Subject Headings |