Calls for Supreme Court Ethics Reform Grow Amid Controversy
Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin is demanding Chief Justice John Roberts to police the actions of Clarence Thomas after a new report showed a GOP megadonor paying school tuition for a close relative of the conservative justice. Durbin is pushing for a new ethics bill to impose a code of conduct on the justices, but can't move forward until Sen. Dianne Feinstein returns from her illness since Republicans would have the votes to block any such legislation in his committee. Some Democrats on the panel, like Sen. Dick Blumenthal, want to go much further than Durbin in the Thomas probe. Republicans are defending Thomas and calling it a "smear attempt" by Democrats.
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- Liberal Supreme Court justices shouldn’t let Clarence Thomas off the hook MSNBC
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