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    Michael Hiltzik: The Supreme Court rejects ethics oversight. Can anything change that?

    It's hardly a secret that the public standing of the Supreme Court is in a bad way. The reasons go beyond a string of recent rulings that run counter to the weight of public opinion — eviscerating abortion rights, shrinking voting rights, undermining gun safety regulations among them. But the court now has another problem, namely, increasing doubts about the justices' ethical standards. The ...
    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times May 04, 2023 6 minutes
    Activists attend a press conference on Supreme Court ethics reform outside of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Washington, D.C..

    It's hardly a secret that the public standing of the Supreme Court is in a bad way.

    The reasons go beyond a string of recent rulings that run counter to the weight of public opinion — eviscerating abortion rights, shrinking voting rights, undermining gun safety regulations among them.

    But the court now has another problem, namely, increasing doubts about the justices' ethical standards.

    The doubts arise from publicity about a potentially improper financial relationship between Justice Clarence Thomas and Harlan Crow, a wealthy real estate developer; questions about whether Thomas and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. should have recused themselves because of the appearance (at least) of conflicts of interest due to their wives' activities; and questions about whether Thomas and Justice Neil M. Gorsuch made adequate disclosures about their financial transactions.

    Beyond the specifics, the allegations have focused attention on an inconvenient fact about the ethical atmosphere at the Supreme Court: Uniquely among federal judges, the justices of the Supreme

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