The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee said the high court is in an “ethical crisis of its own making' after a report that Justice Samuel Alito took an expensive fishing trip with prominent GOP donor Paul Singer.
The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee said the high court is in an “ethical crisis of its own making” after a report that Justice Samuel Alito took an expensive fishing trip with prominent GOP donor Paul Singer.
The Illinois Democrat announced Wednesday that his panel will vote on ethics legislation for the high court in July, after he and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse have spent months probing the matter. Durbin’s statement was prompted by a ProPublica report that Justice Samuel Alito took an expensive fishing trip with prominent GOP donor Paul Singer, a story that followed another ProPublica investigation into Justice Clarence Thomas accepting luxury trips from billionaire Harlan Crow.
“The highest court in the land should not have the lowest ethical standards. But for too long that has been the case with the United States Supreme Court. That needs to change. That’s why when the Senate returns after the July 4th recess, the Senate Judiciary Committee will mark up Supreme Court ethics legislation,” Durbin and Whitehouse said in a statement.
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