what ethical standard? there is no set of standards that supplies applies to the supreme court. they are exempt. we re calling for here is an independent body that already exists, the judicial conference, to set up a code of conduct that will look very much like the appellate court judges, district court judges are held to. so, at the very least, we know what rules apply, what rules don t apply to the supreme court. i just think we are at a moment of a real crisis of legitimacy when it comes to the court. i think the court would be helped by having this code of conduct everyone can see. so, if someone on the court violates the code of ethics, is there a punishment? what kind of enforcement mechanism do you see here? this is the real problem. it is probably beyond the bounds of the legislative branch to provide an enforcement mechanism. in our bill, we would establish a form of independent counsel who could undertake investigations. but sanction would ultimately have to be up to the
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conservative justices on the court don t really think they are judges. they don t really think they should be bound by the same code of conduct as every other federal judge is. their policy makers, not judge. as they re making not interpreting law the new justices, gorsuch, kavanaugh, coney barrett, they ran campaigns for the supreme court. that s just like we run campaigns for elected office in the legislature. my worry is that they don t believe that they should be bound by the code that every other justice is bound by, because they think they aren t judges, they believe their policy makers. i think there are probably people in the gop that enjoy that they are making law. there are effectively the functioning branch of the republican party in a lot of ways. the republicans in the legislature are busy having hearings about covid coming from mars or whatever. and the republicans the conservative justices on the court are actually crafting law. i would imagine that either the
unlike all other federal judges, there s no ethics code and there are no standards for supreme court justices. the washington post reports today that the justices have been discussing establishing rules for themselves for four years now. but they could not come to an agreement. so, they just aren t going to give themselves any rules, which is wild. it s particularly wild for an institution in which public confidence is at a historic low. it s an institution that has truly too many controversies to count at this point. whether or not you care about the leak of the draft opinion of the court s decision to overturn roe v. wade, which was authored by justice samuel alito, the courts investigation into that leak has been incredibly tallying telling. all rank and file supreme court employees were required to sign affidavits swearing they did not like the decision. but the justices themselves were not. that investigation led to a whistleblower coming forward alleging that way back in 2014,
himself, chris murphy, senator from the great state of connecticut. senator murphy, thank you for being here with us tonight. can you tell me what you want to do in this bill? what we want to do is very simple. we want to make sure that every judge who sits on a federal bench has a code of conduct that the american people can see that applies to them. as you mentioned, right now, there are only nine justices that have no code of conduct. that s outrageous, especially at a moment where we are seeing this rather outlandish and transparent integration between the conservative justices on the court and the broader conservative movement. you mentioned this case in which there is a really serious allegation that justice alito or one of his family members told conservative activists ahead of time about a contraception decision. the court said, well, there is no evidence that there was unethical standard breached.