WaPo: First Amendment groups ask Supreme Court for access to surveillance court opinions

WaPo: First Amendment groups ask Supreme Court for access to surveillance court opinions by Spencer S. Hsu:

The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday asked the Supreme Court to open a window on the government’s secretive system for approving national security surveillance on U.S. soil.

Transparency advocates petitioned the high court to review whether the public has a right to access the decisions of a largely secret federal surveillance court, whose growing reach and brushes with political controversy have drawn increasing attention — and contrasting opinions about public access within the court itself.