Thursday, January 17, 2019

Why Won’t John Roberts Accept an Ethics Code for Supreme Court Justices?; Slate, January 16, 2019

, Slate; Why Won’t John Roberts Accept an Ethics Code for Supreme Court Justices? 

"Supreme Court justices also face ethics questions. Is it permissible for justices to provide anonymous leaks to the press about their private conferences? May they criticize political candidates, speak at meetings of partisan legal organizations, or raise funds for charities? May they vacation with litigants in the middle of a pending case or comment on legal issues or proceedings in lower courts? May clerks and court staff be assigned to work on the justices’ private books and memoirs? These are not hypotheticals. At least one justice has engaged in each of these activities in past years, and there is no definitive code of conduct that prohibits them."

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