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- Chief Justice John Roberts led justices to discuss sealing papers after Justice Antonin Scalia’s 2016 death.
- Scalia left no instructions for preserving his papers, raising fears of loss or rapid release.
- No law obliges the Supreme Court to preserve or publicly release internal records, unlike the executive branch.
- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sent her papers to the Library of Congress, sealing them until all involved justices died.
