A partisan slugfest broke out at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, when the panel met to consider an ethics code for the Supreme Court.
A partisan slugfest broke out at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, when the panel met to consider an ethics code for the Supreme Court.
Federal ethics laws require justices to file financial disclosure forms but Democrats say they should have to follow a binding ethics code like other federal judges and lawmakers do. Several Republicans argued that for Congress to impose a code would diminish the independence of the judicial branch.
“Making sure that the highest court in the land has a judicial code of conduct – as all other courts do, as the legislative branch does, as the executive branch does – I think that this is important for the overall credibility and trust of the court,” she said Monday.
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