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US Supreme Court announces formal ethics code for justices (www.reuters.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by memfree@beehaw.org to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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The code contains sections codifying that justices should not allow outside relationships to influence their official conduct or judgment, placing restrictions on justices participating in fundraising and reiterating limits on the accepting of gifts. It also states that justices should not "to any substantial degree" use their judicial resources or staff to engage in non-official activities.

Note that it sounds like this has NOT been officially adopted yet and so far there is no obvious means of enforcement.

Edit: Politco has posted the PDF of the "CODE OF CONDUCT FOR JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES"

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 26 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Notably, they did not adopt the same code of ethics that all other federal judges are held to.

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

To me, it feels like this is just written confirmation that they functionally have no code of ethics. They've been dodging the question for months, so I guess this is progress?

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