Calls for justices to be subject to an ethics code have grown in recent weeks after revelations about justices’ gifts, luxury travel and property deals highlighted how few requirements are in place. Prominent retired judge calls for SCOTUS ethics rules:
Chief Justice of the United States since 2005
The statement by Judge J. Michael Luttig, a retired appeals court judge revered by some conservatives, came as the Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee prepared to hold a hearing on Supreme Court ethics. Pressure has mounted among progressives for a stricter code of conduct for the justices, the nation’s highest judges, who are appointed to lifetime terms and are bound by few disclosure requirements.
During the hearing Tuesday, lawmakers are expected to hear from five experts, including Jeremy Fogel, a former federal judge who directs the Berkeley Judicial Institute at the University of California, Berkeley; Kedric Payne, a vice president of the Campaign Legal Center, a campaign watchdog group; Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia who specializes in legal ethics; Michael B. Mukasey, who served as attorney general in the George W.
Tribe added that he believed it would be “entirely prudent for Congress to enact norms in the form of rules binding on the justices if only as a prophylactic measure” to stop the court from being cast into “an ever darker shadow unhelpful to the esteem required for it to perform its function as a branch of government lacking both the sword and the purse and thus dependent on public respect for its integrity.
The justice also failed to disclose a real estate deal with Crow in which the billionaire bought properties from the justice and his family, including Thomas’ mother’s home in Savannah, Georgia. Crow paid $133,363 to the justice and his family for the property, according to records filed at Chatham County courthouse dated Oct. 15, 2014. Thomas’ mother, Leola Williams, still lives in the home.
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