An attempt to gain access to decisions made by a secretive court was denied on Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court. The American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of other groups argued that the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment requires the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to make all “novel or significant interpretations” of law issued between Sept. 11, 2001, and mid-2015. The court was required by Congress with the passage of the USA Freedom Act to release significant opinions for public dissemination, but the government decides which ones to release, and has refused to release any such opinions issued prior to June 2015. FISC, which was created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and its court of review both ruled against the civil liberties group. The courts asserted they lacked the authority to consider granting the access sought. That set up a writ of certiorari, or an appeal, to the …