Chief Justice John Roberts pledged to improve ethics training and bolster internal compliance systems for the federal judiciary, citing Wall Street Journal findings that federal judges with financial conflicts improperly ruled in hundreds of cases
WASHINGTON—Chief Justice John Roberts pledged Friday to improve ethics training and bolster internal compliance systems for the federal judiciary, citingthat found hundreds of instances where judges presided over cases involving companies in which they or their relatives held stock.
“Let me be crystal clear: the Judiciary takes this matter seriously. We expect judges to adhere to the highest standards, and those judges violated an ethics rule,” the chief justice said in , which traditionally is published on Dec. 31 and includes statistics regarding the federal courts’ caseload.
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