TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 16, 2015

In an op-ed for the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, calls for placing U.S. Supreme Court justices under a code of ethical conduct. Slaughter argues that “many Americans would be surprised to learn that the nine justices on the Supreme Court are the only federal judges in the nation not bound by a code of ethical conduct.” Slaughter has introduced the Supreme Court Ethics Act to apply to the justices the same code of conduct that applies to other federal judges.