A Senate panel on Tuesday will move ahead with a hearing on the increasing demands for Supreme Court ethics reform.
a request to testify, but a Senate panel on Tuesday will move ahead with a hearing on the increasing demands for Supreme Court ethics reform.
A key question raised by ethics experts and Democratic lawmakers is why the Supreme Court has not adopted an ethics code of conduct similar to the one lower federal court judges follow. The justices say they follow the spirit of that code, introduced in 1973, but they have never formally adopted one of their own. There is also no procedure that allows for complaints to be investigated short of the drastic step of impeachment.
Republicans mostly say Democrats are motivated by sour grapes because the court now has a 6-3 conservative majority that has dramatically shifted its rulings to the right, most notably with last year's reversal of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that said women had a constitutional right to obtain abortions.
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