Supreme Court’s ‘not new’ ethics code largely codifies existing judiciary rules
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday issued a code of conduct for itself for the first time, but it conceded the rules are “not new” and simply restate the principles it says its justices have long followed.
The announcement said the justices hoped the code would “dispel this misunderstanding” that they “regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules.”
But this modest effort is unlikely to end the controversy created by Justice Clarence Thomas and his free luxury vacations, paid for by Texas real estate billionaire Harlan Crow.
That’s because there is still no enforcement mechanism behind the
