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Background: A trial court in the District of Columbia used a “husher” to prevent the public from hearing any of the answers that prospective jurors gave to questions posed to them during jury ...

Background: In 2018, professor Lawrence Kalbers filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking access to records from the U.S. Department of Justice concerning its high-profile prosecution of ...

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