"Perhaps it's time to remind the nine revered members of the United States Supreme Court that they were appointed — not anointed."
https://www.jewishexponent.com/the-supreme-courts-ethical-challenge/
#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #ethics #EthicsCode
@RunRichRun but this piece follows the same misunderstandings that the Court was trying to raise awareness of.
Most importantly it misses that unlike lower courts, the SCOTUS was specifically set up to be independent of the other branches, to maintain the crucial independent judiciary of the federal government.
It's not that the code contains no enforcement mechanisms, but rather that it CANNOT contain enforcement mechanisms without piercing the independent judiciary and creating conflicts of interest.
That's what people seem to misunderstand, though it's basic civics.
