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The secretive Judicial Conference is tasked with self-governance. The group, led by the Supreme Court’s chief justice, has spent decades preserving perks, defending judges and thwarting outside oversight.
Federal courts played a pivotal role in stopping, stalling, or forcing rollbacks of several of Donald Trump’s most controversial first-term policies. Federal judges also halted Trump’s legal efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden.
Now that a unanimous Supreme Court has issued a code of conduct for itself, its leftist critics should stop jawboning against the bench as though it were a haven for corruption.