John Roberts on Tuesday turned down Dick Durbin’s request to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee, claiming that doing so could pose a risk to the Supreme Court’s “judicial independence.”
. “Supreme Court ethics reform must happen whether the Court participates in the process or not,” Durbin said in a statement late Tuesday, vowing to go ahead with the May 2 hearing without Roberts. “It is time for Congress to accept its responsibility to establish an enforceable code of ethics for the Supreme Court, the only agency of our government without it.”
Roberts has long dismissed the need for reform: In 2011—after a congressional hearing on earlier conflict of interest concerns about Thomas’s relationship with Crow and his wife’s previous work for the Obama administration—the chief justice claimed that the high court had “no reason to adopt the Code of Conduct as its definitive source of ethical guidance.”
“We are all deeply committed to the common interest in preserving the Court’s vital role as an impartial tribunal governed by the rule of law,” Roberts added in hisat the time, arguing that “instances of judges abandoning their oath ‘to faithfully and impartially discharge and perform’ the duties of their office have been exceedingly rare.”
But Americans have been given good reason of late to believe these improprieties are far more common than Roberts insists they are., and the radical GOP installed a right-wing supermajority on the high court that has bulldozed longstanding precedent, attacked Americans’ rights, and flaunted their unchecked power over their fellow citizens.
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