{"id":22987,"date":"2026-09-01T16:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22987"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:40:34","slug":"the-supreme-courts-secret-documents-and-an-unusual-order-from-the-c-d-c-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22987","title":{"rendered":"The Supreme Court\u2019s Secret Documents, and an Unusual Order From the C.D.C. Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Supreme Court justices hiding&nbsp;their personal deliberations and keeping their notes secret for decades after their deaths or even destroyed, and with a heavy amount of rulings coming from the shadow docket where they don&#8217;t have to explain themselves&#8230;the Supreme Court has a transparency problem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Supreme Court\u2019s Secret Documents, and an Unusual Order From the C.D.C. Director\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2GZMk-JIpQU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Supreme Court justices hiding their personal deliberations and keeping their notes secret for decades after their deaths or even destroyed, and with a heavy amount of rulings coming from the shadow docket where they don&#8217;t have to explain themselves&#8230;the Supreme Court has a transparency problem. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2GZMk-JIpQU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[790,1213,528,843],"class_list":["post-22987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-courts","tag-judiciary","tag-supreme-court","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22988,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22987\/revisions\/22988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}