Chief Justice Roberts Declines Ethics Meeting Amid Alito Controversy

Chief Justice John Roberts declined a request from Senate Democrats to discuss Supreme Court ethics and Justice Samuel Alito's recusal from cases related to the January 6 Capitol attack. Roberts emphasized that justices decide for themselves when to step aside from cases and noted that meeting with only one party's leaders would be inadvisable. Public trust in the Supreme Court is at a historic low, and the court recently adopted a code of ethics lacking enforcement mechanisms.