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Supreme Court asked to give access to secretive court's work MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2018 file photo, then former Solicitor General Theodore Olson testifies on a panel of experts and character witnesses before the Senate Judiciary Committee on behalf of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on the final day of the confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Civil liberties groups are asking the Supreme Court to give the public access to opinions of the secretive court that reviews bulk ema...

WASHINGTON – A group of First Amendment advocates is asking the Supreme Court to make public the major opinions of the secret court that authorizes government surveillance, bringing the issue before the nation's highest court for the first time. The American Civil Liberties Union and others have for years asserted the public has a First Amendment right to review major opinions from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court – such as those that include interpretations of the Constitution – even if some portion of those opinions must be redacted. The groups are appealing a decision...

American people. you know, they're constantly besieged by questions about all these other events, some of them salacious, some of them merely awfully interesting. >> jill, what was the situation, you were a watergate prosecutor. how did nixon deal with his legal representation as that started to bear down on him, and the legal representation for other people that he wanted to sort of keep in the fold? >> he had a very large and pretty high quality legal team, which is not the same as we're seeing here where the lawyers are not your top tier lawyers. ted olson has turned down the opportunity to...

>> he had a very large and pretty high quality legal team, which is not the same as we're seeing here where the lawyers are not your top tier lawyers. ted olson has turned down the opportunity to join the team. he would have been a top tier lawyer. so i think that nixon treated his lawyers fairly well. he followed their advice. i don't know whether he was completely honest with them. i don't know if he told them the truth about, for example, the 18-minute gap. but he did not fire his lawyers and he didn't try to bring in new ones to disrupt the workings of his current team. >> you know, there'...

Attention first among laurels who think about this kind of stuff and people closer to the courts but then you note how it went more widespread. john roberts, of course, then supreme court justice, theodore olson, a big conservative attorney. on the other side, john lewis, of course, being someone that fought against this. there's growing attention on their need in their view to constrict or refine the eligibility and testing for who gets to vote. >> absolutely. when you saw the voting rights act, it was challenged by southern conservatives arguing the federal government didn't have the power t...