Just to add on to the sibling comment: absolutely yes, they should. SCOTUS opinions are written to be read by educated laymen. It is nothing like reading code -

Just to add on to the sibling comment: absolutely yes, they should. SCOTUS opinions are written to be read by educated laymen. It is nothing like reading code - the whole point of the institution is that it's the supreme court of a democratic, self-governed people! The law is supposed to be understood. Justices are experts because of their comprehensive knowledge of case law and precedent and their ability to apply it to a given case, not because the method is beyond the grasp of normal people. You might also be surprised at how, compared to the code analogy, informal and even non-legalistic many opinions are. There's a lot of opinions that read largely like well-informed Internet comments for long stretches until legal citations come back in.