Well, of course, this is America. You want information without paying for it? What are you, some kind of communist? Some of our laws require payment to read!
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/public-records-a...
(And that's not even counting the amount of law in the US that is from case law instead of statutes; most case law is behind some sort of paywall. Hence RECAP, which is sort of like Sci-Hub for law.)