Commentary: The Supreme Court finally has a code of ethics, but it has a fatal flaw
by Erwin Chemerinsky, Los Angeles Times
Nov 15, 2023
3 minutes
Although it is welcome and overdue that the Supreme Court finally adopted an ethics code for its justices on Monday, the approach is seriously flawed in that it includes no enforcement mechanism. Instead it continues to leave it to each justice to decide whether to be recused in a particular case.
Until Monday, every judge in the country — state and federal — was bound by an ethics code, except for the most important jurists:, most notably Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, highlighted this absence.
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