Reading this, an earlier article on DC's laws being copyrighted by a private firm (link below) and Aaron Swartz's FBI file make me think how inaccessible our go

Reading this, an earlier article on DC's laws being copyrighted by a private firm (link below) and Aaron Swartz's FBI file make me think how inaccessible our government really is. Not only is it hard to even find the relevant laws or even worse court decisions once you read them they are often incomprehensible. Can't the government afford to put this on the web in an easily usable form? Perhaps annotated with at least their own interpretation of the meaning. Don't they need this to function? Could there be some sort of open-source effort by lawyers to solve this problem? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5251797 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5251797 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247730 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247730