Senator asserts Congress' authority to impose ethics reform on Supreme Court.

Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has said that Congress can impose ethics reform on the US Supreme Court, despite arguments made by Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow and Chief Justice John Roberts. Whitehouse has called for the judicial conference to put constraints around the Supreme Court's behavior and treat it like all other federal judges. Supreme Court justices are nominally subject to federal ethics laws but in practice govern themselves. Whitehouse has campaigned against so-called “dark money” in US politics and has called the Roberts court a “fact-free zone as well as an ethics-free zone”.