The Judicial Conference’s Committee on Financial Disclosure voted last week to bar posting of federal judges’ financial disclosure statements on the Internet. The committee said that Internet posting would “obstruct Congress’s intent to permit a security determination prior to release of a judge’s financial disclosure report.”

But the decision got little support in Congress, where both Republicans and Democrats criticized it and some members called for hearings on the issue.

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