Wisconsin Supreme Court votes to keep more meetings behind closed doors
MADISON - The Wisconsin Supreme Court voted Wednesday to keep more of its deliberations behind closed doors.
The decision — on a 5-2 vote — came amid acrimony that has come to mark the court in recent years.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court, like other courts, has always conducted its arguments on cases in public and its deliberations about those cases behind closed doors.
But in 1999, the court became one of the first state high courts — if not the first — to hold its administrative meetings before the public. At the meetings, shown live in recent years on the WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network, the justices discussed issues both meaty and mundane, many of them pertaining to court policies.
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