The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on a new ethics code for the Supreme Court, an attempt to respond to recent revelations about justices’ interactions with wealthy donors and others.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote Thursday on a new ethics code for the Supreme Court, an attempt to respond to recent revelations about justices’ interactions with wealthy donors and others. Republicans are strongly opposed, arguing the ethics bill could “destroy” the high court.

  • Jaysyn
    5•1 year ago

    " ignoring the code as it currently exists."

    I thought the issue was they aren’t covered under those laws.

    • Arotrios
      12•1 year ago

      Yep, exactly. There’s an ethics code that Roberts recently published that was a rehash of the non-binding ethics standards that both Thomas and Alioto regularly ignored. This is an update to that code with more oversight in the form of additional required disclosures, but (correct me if I’m wrong - please, I want to be wrong here) I’m not seeing anything about enforcement, or anything about the consequences to a justice for violating these new requirements.