It's clear that Republicans oppose Supreme Court ethics reforms. But as stevebenen writes, even after listening carefully to their odd talking points, it's less clear why.
in the institution, it’s hardly shocking that senators would consider a reform bill such as the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act.isn’t especially radical. If approved, the measure would direct the court to adopt and publish a code of conduct, create recusal rules, establish new disclosure rules, and allow the public to submit ethics complaints to be evaluated by lower court judges., the support was far from bipartisan.
Literally zero GOP members of the panel supported the bill. Indeed, this wasn’t an instance in which Judiciary Committee Republicans opposedlegislation, but suggested they might be open to an amended, watered-down, less-ambitious alternative. Rather, they balked atHelping lead the charge was Sen. Lindsey Graham, who declared during the proceedings that the legislation represented “a bill to destroy a conservative court” that he and the rest of the GOP have worked hard to build.
During yesterday’s process, GOP members clung to one underlying point: The justices must be allowed to police themselves without interference. Congress might have the authority to create new limits, they said, but that power must be ignored so that justices can decide on their own what, if anything, to do.
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