But legal obligations to the people cannot be contracted away. Court decisions are public. Statutes are public. Again, to my knowledge, (which must obviously be

But legal obligations to the people cannot be contracted away. Court decisions are public. Statutes are public. Again, to my knowledge, (which must obviously be limited), you cannot contract away the right of people to access the law. Nor can the right of people to write, or comment on, the law be contracted away. You just can't contract away First Amendment rights. You can't say, "Well, we have a publisher, so no writing or reporting on that." The government is explicitly forbidden from entering into any arrangement that would do that. What's in this contract that makes that legal? That's what we need to get to, because whatever it is making this behavior legal, it has to be removed. And it has to be made explicitly illegal by the Supremes. (You wouldn't think you'd need to do that, but there's always a few politicians everywhere who can't be trusted to act in good faith.)