who answered questions in great detail and got rejected.

He answered with a lot of detail. He would always come back very concisely.

They had questions and I answered them. That's all. That's all I got.

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.

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,