Challenges in Reforming Supreme Court Ethics
TL;DR
The recent revelations about Justice Clarence Thomas's failure to disclose gifts from a Republican donor have highlighted the fact that the Supreme Court has the weakest ethics rules in the federal government. However, proposals in Congress to force the court to adopt a stronger code of conduct face steep political and constitutional hurdles. The court has no binding code of ethical conduct like the one that governs lower-court judges, and the justices have shown no interest in adopting one. Even if the court were to adopt an ethics code, it is unclear how it would be enforced.
Topics:nationpolitics#clarence-thomas#congress#ethics-rules#financial-disclosure#politics#supreme-court
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