Roberts should face reality: The Supreme Court needs a code of conduct

[BidenPresident]

Chief Justice Roberts and other justices have said in the past that they can’t be bound by all the same rules as lower court judges because of the Supreme Court’s unique constitutional role as the nation’s final decision-maker. Yet that’s the very reason its members should be held to exacting standards.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/26/supreme-court-ethics-reform-clarence-thomas/

 

[BidenPresident]

It was never realistic to expect that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. would go before Congress for a clobbering over Supreme Court ethics rules. But citizens are entitled to expect more from him than what they got this week after he decided not to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee: a “statement on ethics principles and practices” he released, which amounts to an insistence that existing rules are sufficient.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/26/supreme-court-ethics-reform-clarence-thomas/

 

[Grokmaster]

Chief Justice Roberts and other justices have said in the past that they can’t be bound by all the same rules as lower court judges because of the Supreme Court’s unique constitutional role as the nation’s final decision-maker. Yet that’s the very reason its members should be held to exacting standards.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/26/supreme-court-ethics-reform-clarence-thomas/

They have one.

 

[Grokmaster]

It was never realistic to expect that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. would go before Congress for a clobbering over Supreme Court ethics rules. But citizens are entitled to expect more from him than what they got this week after he decided not to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee: a “statement on ethics principles and practices” he released, which amounts to an insistence that existing rules are sufficient.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/26/supreme-court-ethics-reform-clarence-thomas/

Another Stalinocrat Witch Hunt...please explain KBJ's affection for child predators, whom she regularly let off easy, in her judicial career, or Sotomayor's glaring, blatant lies about children hospitalized with Covid....as long as you're on your high horse.

 

[BidenPresident]

In Bipartisan Bill, Senators Urge Supreme Court to Adopt Ethics Code

WASHINGTON — Two senators introduced a bipartisan bill on Wednesday aimed at forcing the Supreme Court to establish an ethics code after recent revelations that some justices had not disclosed gifts, travel and property deals.

Senators Angus King, an independent from Maine who caucuses with Democrats, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, a centrist Republican, introduced the legislation, which would also require the court to appoint an official to examine potential conflicts and public complaints.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/us/politics/senate-bill-supreme-court-ethics.html

 

[Grokmaster]

WASHINGTON — Two senators introduced a bipartisan bill on Wednesday aimed at forcing the Supreme Court to establish an ethics code after recent revelations that some justices had not disclosed gifts, travel and property deals.

Senators Angus King, an independent from Maine who caucuses with Democrats, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, a centrist Republican, introduced the legislation, which would also require the court to appoint an official to examine potential conflicts and public complaints.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/us/politics/senate-bill-supreme-court-ethics.html

No, it would require a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, to place the SCOTUS under the supervision of some non-existent branch of the government.