Challenges in Reforming Supreme Court Ethics
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The recent revelations about Justice Clarence Thomas's failure to disclose gifts from a Republican donor have highlighted the fact that the Supreme Court has the weakest ethics rules in the federal government. However, proposals in Congress to force the court to adopt a stronger code of conduct face steep political and constitutional hurdles. The court has no binding code of ethical conduct like the one that governs lower-court judges, and the justices have shown no interest in adopting one. Even if the court were to adopt an ethics code, it is unclear how it would be enforced.
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