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.
So according to Republicans if the Supreme Court had ethics it would destroy them?
Then they need to be fucking destroyed.
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the Judiciary panel, said that if the bill were to ever pass, “the Supreme Court as we know it would be destroyed.”
Wasn’t he the same guy who said that if the GOP nominated Trump, it would destroy the party? He seems to have a fetish for destruction.
I don’t want the Supreme Court to continue existing in it’s current form, do you?
He’s not wrong, he’s just an asshole. 🤣🤣
He seems to have a fetish for destruction.
Among others, if rumors are to be believed.
The committee’s legislation would impose new ethics rules on the court and a process to enforce them, including new standards for transparency around recusals, gifts and potential conflicts of interest. Democrats first pushed the legislation after reports earlier this year that Justice Clarence Thomas participated in luxury vacations and a real estate deal with a top GOP donor — and after Chief Justice John Roberts declined to testify before the committee about the ethics of the court.
A good first step, but we need more than a code update when they’re ignoring the code as it currently exists. We need an independent non-partisan office that can and will enforce it, and ideally has the capacity to bring criminal charges to justices in violation.
" ignoring the code as it currently exists."
I thought the issue was they aren’t covered under those laws.
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.
Next up: the Supreme Court decides that ethics rules applied to them are unconstitutional
