The Supreme Court is adopting its first code of ethics, in the face of sustained criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices.
A self imposed code of ethics that will have zero punishment for violations. This is not what people said when they said restrictions on the supreme court
The benefit of a self imposed code of ethics is it gives clear guidelines for impeachment. It’s a “too little too late” situation, but congress absolutely can use that as a guidepost for both investigations and convictions.
It’s more than that. Punishments or not, what it does is set clear standards. If you do this, you are in the wrong, kinda thing. It leaves it less ambiguous, and makes it easier for them to be judged.
Except it doesn’t set any clear standards. It deliberately keeps the standards as vague "should"s while making presumption of their having followed them mandatory. Even then, the exceptions to even those "should"s are gaping holes that swallow the rules.
A self imposed code of ethics that will have zero punishment for violations. This is not what people said when they said restrictions on the supreme court
To paraphrase someone else, it has enough should clauses to drive several favorable RV loans through.
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Zero punishment AND overseen by themselves.
More like what you’d call guidelines…
The benefit of a self imposed code of ethics is it gives clear guidelines for impeachment. It’s a “too little too late” situation, but congress absolutely can use that as a guidepost for both investigations and convictions.
It’s more than that. Punishments or not, what it does is set clear standards. If you do this, you are in the wrong, kinda thing. It leaves it less ambiguous, and makes it easier for them to be judged.
Except it doesn’t set any clear standards. It deliberately keeps the standards as vague "should"s while making presumption of their having followed them mandatory. Even then, the exceptions to even those "should"s are gaping holes that swallow the rules.
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