Democratic lawmakers criticize the Supreme Court for releasing a nonbinding code of conduct without any enforcement mechanism. The code provides guidelines on avoiding impropriety but lacks the ability to reprimand or determine violations. This makes Supreme Court justices the only federal judges without a binding ethics code.
Democratic lawmakers are condemning the Supreme Court for its fanfare over its supposedly new code of conduct released Monday, saying that the code is essentially “useless” because it has no binding enforcement mechanism .on the bench. The code gives basic guidelines on avoiding “impropriety and the appearance of impropriety” and on what events and political activities a justice can participate in.
But, as lawmakers and judiciary experts have pointed out, the code is nonbinding and makes no mention of any form of enforcement other than the current reliance on the court’s internal legal counsel; if a justice were to violate the code, there isn’t a way to reprimand them or even a way to formally determine if they violated the code to begin with. In other words, Supreme Court justices remain the only federal judges in the country not subject to a binding ethics code.the code is a “step in the right direction,” but still totally insufficient to address the issues that he and other Senate Judiciary Democrats have been trying to resolve in recent month
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