Democrats in Senate Judiciary Committee take steps to address corruption on Supreme Court. The committee vote comes as all 9 justices object to the ethics code, despite reports of lavish gifts.
Supreme Court Police officers stand on the plaza outside of the Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C.Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee are taking steps to address corruption on the Supreme Court at a time when the Court is eroding the public’s rights at an unprecedented rate.
On Monday, Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Dick Durbin and Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Chair Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse announced that the committee will be voting on advancing a bill regarding Supreme Court ethics next week, on July 20.being bound to an ethics code — despite the deluge of reports that have come out in recent months detailing justices accepting lavish gifts, sometimes from people whose firms and businesses had business before the Court.
“The belief that [justices] should not be held accountable or even disclose lavish gifts from wealthy benefactors is an affront to the nation they were chosen to serve. To hold these nine Justices to the same standard as every other federal judge is not a radical or partisan notion,” Durbin and Whitehouse said.
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