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On Monday, Nov. 13, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) announced that a code of conduct was being put into effect. This was in response to increasing criticism regarding perceived ethical conflicts among justices. However, experts and critics have claimed this will not end the continued push for ethics reform. The ethics code.
From the commentary, "The (Supreme) Court’s legitimacy, and the very foundation of the rule of law, demand that the court take the next step and provide a way of enforcing the rules that it has adopted.
Although it is welcome and overdue that the Supreme Court finally adopted an ethics code for its justices on Monday, the approach is seriously flawed in that it includes no
Although it is welcome and overdue that the Supreme Court finally adopted an ethics code for its justices on Monday, the approach is seriously flawed in that it includes no enforcement mechanism. Instead it continues to leave it to each justice to decide whether to be recused in a particular