A Democratic-led Senate panel intends to pursue legislation setting ethical standards for U.S. Supreme Court justices amid revelations about luxury trips and real estate transactions involving members of the nation's top judicial body, the panel's chairman said on Tuesday.
"The highest court in the land should not have the lowest ethical standards," Senator Dick Durbin said at the start of a Judiciary Committee hearing on the issue. "That reality is driving a crisis in public confidence in the Supreme Court. The status quo must change."declining
He added: "The Supreme Court should step up and fix this themselves. For years they refused. And because the court will not act, Congress must." U.S. Supreme Court justices pose for their group portrait at the Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., October 7, 2022. Seated : Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Samuel A. Alito, Jr. and Elena Kagan. Standing : Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo
Separately, the news outlet Politico has reported that conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch failed to disclose the buyer of a Colorado property in which he had a stake - the chief executive of a major law firm whose attorneys have been involved in numerous Supreme Court cases. Witnesses testifying included former federal judge Jeremy Fogel and judicial ethics expert Amanda Frost of the University of Virginia School of Law, who both contend that the justices need a code of conduct. Two other witnesses, former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and lawyer Thomas Dupree, argue that imposing such a code through legislation would infringe on the U.S. Constitution's separation of powers among the government's executive, legislative and judicial branches.
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