Secret courts enforcing secret law, and only the prosecutor gets to be there. I cannot think of any bigger slap in the face to the founding principles of this republic.
The Star Chamber (Latin: Camera stellata) was an English court of law which sat at the royal Palace of Westminster, from the late 15th century to the mid-17th century (c. 1641), and was composed of Privy Councillors and common-law judges, to supplement the judicial activities of the common-law and equity courts in civil and criminal matters. The Star Chamber was originally established to ensure the fair enforcement of laws against socially and politically prominent people so powerful that ordinary courts would probably hesitate to convict them of their crimes. However, it became synonymous with social and political oppression through the arbitrary use and abuse of the power it wielded
“Secret courts enforcing secret law, and only the prosecutor gets to be there. I cannot think of any bigger slap in the face to the founding principles of this republic.”
Say it often and say it loud.
Don’t you find it surprising that they have the vault and the security measures? What are they for?
As far as I can tell this is an entirely lawless “court”. All the security measures are not, IMO protecting any sort of national security interest or citizens; it’s protecting the court, the lawyers, the FBI, or whoever goes there.