The Supreme Court has released an official Code of Conduct after the Democrats kept going after Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife for…nothing.
“The undersigned Justices are promulgating this Code of Conduct to set out succinctly and gather in one place the ethics rules and principles that guide the conduct of the Members of the Court,” wrote the justices.
The Code of Conduct is not new, either. It’s the same rules that have been in place.
However, the rules never technically applied to SCOTUS even though Chief Justice John Roberts said the justices had applied them themselves.
So the Court codified the rules. Maybe this will shut up the Democrats, but I doubt it:
For the most part these rules and principles are not new: The Court has long had the equivalent of common law ethics rules, that is, a body of rules derived from a variety of sources, including statutory provisions, the code that applies to other members of the federal judiciary, ethics advisory opinions issued by the Judicial Conference Committee on Codes of Conduct, and historic practice. The absence of a Code, however, has led in recent years to the misunderstanding that the Justices of this Court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules. To dispel this misunderstanding, we are issuing this Code, which largely represents a codification of principles that we have long regarded as governing our conduct.
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