An attorney for Leonard Leo has rejected a request for information about the conservative legal activist's gifts to Supreme Court justices, claiming that their investigation is “politically charged.”
, including the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “The Committee has focused its inquiries on individuals who have relationships with Justices appointed by Republican Presidents,” Rivkin wrote. “Reported instances of Democrat-appointed Justices accepting personal hospitality or other items of value from private individuals have been ignored.”
But, as Durbin has pointed out, he began his push for a Supreme Court code of ethics more than ten years ago, whenwas in office. “I wasn’t motivated by any decision by this court—they weren’t even in existence,” Durbinin May. “We’re certainly not zeroing in and saying, If you fix the Thomas problem, the Court’s in good shape,” he continued. “We think all the justices should be held to the same standard, at least of the other courts in the United States.
That doesn’t seem like it should be controversial. But Republicans, including those who have previously suggested a need for greater transparency, have resisted the push for accountability—as has the court itself, despite its . The message instead—from Roberts, his colleagues and the billionaires in their orbit to the GOP—has been that there’s nothing to see here.
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