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the freebies, he was given or allegedly got, didn t share, that he might be forced to resign. it doesn t appear that that is anywhere near happening, but it would disrupt the court and likely have the view as the president to the left, a democrat, appointing a liberal justice. how close are we to that? is this something we should watch? i don t think we re at all close to that, neil. i can t envision justice thomas resigning because of this. i think we are going to see continued pressure from the political branches, the senate judiciary committee has been looking at this, demanding records and talking a lot about supreme court ethics reform and trying to impose a code of conduct on the supreme court in my judgment would be highly unconstitutional. so i think we ll see political battles, but don t see this culminating into resignation of justice thomas or anyone else. neil: and i promised i would be ping-ponging, tom, and you re patient with it. the investigations piling up against do
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday on “Supreme Court Ethics Reform.” The title implies that Supreme Court ethics need reform and that Congress can do the reforming. The hearing failed to make that case. Everyone agrees on the critical importance of public confidence in the judiciary’s impartiality and integrity, and that that confidence is on the decline. That observation, however, raises the question of what’s causing the decline.