Government has to have the flexibility to say, 'We're going to dismiss this person, not because we think he's disloyal but because we think he is [for example] a bad lawyer,'

The difficulty is that the right to privacy, ... is a right to have the government stop you from speaking about me.

But they were gathering dust in some courthouse basement. These things were technically accessible, but unless you had a lot of time or could afford to hire a private detective to go look this stuff up, they were effectively secret from you.

I sympathize with this person, but it's really not any different than a posting on an anonymous Web page.

who answered questions in great detail and got rejected.

He is a person of proven legal brilliance and judicial temperament, and he is respected by scholars on the left as well as on the right,