Opinion by Ruth Marcus: The Supreme Court is doing itself — and the country — a terrible disservice with its highhanded dismissal of its homegrown ethics issues. John Roberts was right not to testify. But the court is all wrong about its ethical problems.
, Justice Elena Kagan said that Roberts “is studying the question of whether to have a code of judicial conduct that’s applicable only to the United States Supreme Court … it’s something that is being thought very seriously about.”an effort by an evangelical Christian group that gained astonishing access to conservative justices and, according to the New York Times, obtained advance information about the outcome of a case after having dinner with Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and his wife.
, 2021, committee despite the fact that his wife, Ginni Thomas, was extensively involved in disputing the election results and was interviewed by the committee.— Revelations that Thomas accepted extensive luxury travel and accommodations from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow and failed to disclose Crow’s purchase of a home Thomas partially owned, as required by federal law.
If the court won’t act on its own, it may be left with no choice. Durbin backs a proposal by Sen. Chris Murphy that would require the Judicial Conference of the United States, which supervises the lower federal courts, to create a code of conduct for the justices; the measure would also direct the court to appoint an ethics investigations counsel to examine potential violations. Sen.
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