Kristine Guerra

For the past year and a half, Gov Mike Pence (R-IN) has been mired in a legal dispute over government transparency as his lawyers fight to withhold the contents of an e-mail that some say should be considered public record. Critics of the vice president-elect's decision to not release the records — specifically an e-mail attachment sent to Gov Pence's chief of staff in 2014 — say it sets a dangerous precedent that would give the executive branch the ability to decide what's public and what's not, without much accountability.

William Groth, a Democratic attorney who sued Gov Pence in 2015 in an effort to unseal the records, said there's also some “element of hypocrisy,” as the Republican governor and President-elect Donald Trump spent the past several months criticizing Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state.