Public proceedings, private profit: The Donald Trump court transcripts must be freely available to all

Voila: Tuesday night, posted on the website of ABC News, there was the full 32-page transcript from Donald Trump’s arraignment, allowing the world to read precisely what transpired in the most closely watched hearing of the decade. And then, poof, it disappeared the next day, the casualty of an asinine system that prevents records of court proceedings from being read without first being purchased from a court reporter. Those clever enough to use the Internet Archive — go ahead, no one can stop you — can still access it, but nobody else can. This is madness. And it must change before Trump’s ca...