Democrats are looking to establish an enforceable ethics code for the Supreme Court. Now comes the hard part, ZeeshanAleem writes.
A number of legal experts have argued that these nondisclosurespassed after the Watergate scandal that requires Supreme Court justices and many other federal officials to report most gifts. But in reality adherence to disclosure or recusal requirements when justices have a personal relationship with the gift giver has been treated more as a norm to observe than a law to follow.
As the name suggests, SCERT would fall under three buckets. It would create an ethical code of conduct that’s meant to be enforced. It would improve financial disclosure standards to be at least as strong as those for members of Congress. And it would strengthen recusal requirements to reduce conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflict interests.
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