WASHINGTON, D.C. – Perhaps embarrassed by continuous revelations of lavish gifts accepted by some Justices only disclosed after investigation, the U.S. Supreme Court this week offered a weak “Code of Conduct” statement with no enforcement clauses.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES STATEMENT OF THE COURT REGARDING THE CODE OF CONDUCT
The undersigned Justices are promulgating this Code of Conduct to set out succinctly and gather in one place the ethics rules and principles that guide the conduct of the Members of the Court. For the most part these rules and principles are not new: The Court has long had the equivalent of common law ethics rules, that is, a body of rules derived from a variety of sources, including statutory provisions, the code that applies to other members of the federal judiciary, ethics advisory opinions issued by the Judicial Conference Committee on Codes of Conduct, and historic practice. The absence of a Code, however, has led in recent years to the misunderstanding that the Justices of this Court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules. To dispel this misunderstanding, we are issuing this Code, which largely represents a codification of principles that we have long regarded as governing our conduct.
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
(Pictured above: Justice Clarence Thomas, who allegedly got himself a free RV from a billionaire friend. His Wife Ginny was also allegedly heavily involved in the January 6, 2021 insurrection a the Capitol.)
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Never needed until now, and of course a Republican appointee. Not an honest one in the bunch