To allow such secret judicial proceedings invites corruption and makes a mockery of the conception of justice the courts supposedly exist to uphold.
Paired with secret police operations (how many times have we heard police chiefs refuse to answer simple and germane questions to "protect an investigation?"), such proceedings constitute the necessary elements of a police state as ugly as any in history.
If American freedom is to stand a chance of survival and recovery, judges who engage in this kind of misconduct must be removed from their benches, stripped of their robes, and punished harshly after the speedy, and very public, trials they're entitled to, of course.
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