Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said a code of ethics for the high court would be a “good thing.”
The Obama appointee noted during remarks Friday at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana that she hopes the Supreme Court adopts a code of conduct soon.
She added, “It would help in our own compliance with the rules and it would — I think — go far in persuading other people that we were adhering to the highest standards of conduct.” ProPublica has mostly targeted Justice Clarence Thomas with accusations about reporting gifts and recusing himself from cases. It reported that Harlan Crow, a GOP megadonor, paid private school tuition at Hidden Lake Academy and Randolph-Macon Academy for Justice Thomas’ great-nephew, whom the justice took in to raise at age 6.
The New York Times followed with a report critical of Justice Thomas and other Republican appointees collecting generous salaries to teach courses at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia School of Law. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats held hearings over the summer on ethics concerns regarding the justices, saying they would pass legislation to impose rules on the justices. They invited Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. to testify, but he declined.
He said all justices must file disclosures reviewed by the Judicial Conference Committee on Financial Disclosure and follow what lower courts do with recusals. But he noted that the system is flexible, given the composition of the high court.
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