New in Public Notice: The many ways that SCOTUS's new "ethics code” actually provides cover for corruption https://www.publicnotice.co/p/supreme-court-ethics-code-corruption-explained
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@JBShakerman well the problem is that the philosophy of judicial independence of the Supreme Court that insulates it from interference by the other branches also kind of insulates it from the sort of enforceable ethical rules that so many seem to be wanting.
So yeah, any code of ethics is going to be somewhat phony because that's just how the US federal government is designed.
You can't really have it both ways. Either the Supreme Court is independent or there can be enforcement brought against it. The two are kind of contradictory.
