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Supreme Court ethics hearings face tough, but necessary, road to reform

The hearings, led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, began this week and are perhaps the only vehicle, at this stage, to leverage public pressure that could lead to an ethics code for the nation’s highest court.

Chicago Sun-Times

Senate Democrats’ effort to overhaul Supreme Court ethics faces GOP opposition

Democrats hope to strengthen ethics rules governing the nine justices in the wake of reports that Justice Clarence Thomas accepted expensive vacations from a GOP donor.

Chicago Sun-Times

Democrats push for US Supreme Court ethics code

Washington (AFP) - US senators pressed Tuesday for a binding code of conduct to be forced on the Supreme Court amid a mushrooming scandal over justices accepting lavish gifts and benefiting from undisclosed real estate transactions.

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Supreme Court news: Cruz accuses Democrats of racist attacks on Thomas as Senate mulls ethics rules

Hearing comes after revelations expose ethics issues at the nation’s highest court

The Independent UK

Partisan divide drives Senate hearing on Supreme Court ethics

Senators heard from witnesses, ranging from judicial ethics experts to a former attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, but used their questioning to reinforce their own arguments.

WEKU

John Roberts' wife cashes in: docs

"At least some of her remarkable success as a recruiter has come because of her spouse's position": whistleblower

Salon

Ethics of Supreme Court justices in spotlight at Senate hearing

Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court is used to doing the grilling but it will be the high court itself in the hot seat on Tuesday as a Senate panel conducts an extraordinary examination of the ethics of the justices.

AFP

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The Senate holds its Supreme Court ethics hearing this week — with no justices

Ahead of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on Supreme Court ethics reform, Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono tells NPR that the highest court in the U.S. should have the highest ethical standards.

WEKU

Abortion draft leak made us assassination targets: US justice

Washington (AFP) - US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, author of the court's ruling to overturn abortion rights, said Friday that he and other conservative justices were "targets of assassination" after the decision was leaked last year.

AFP

The US supreme court’s alleged ethics issues are worse than you probably realize

Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch have both been accused of ethics violations – and John Roberts refuses to discuss the matter with Congress

The Guardian - US

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Gender gap persists at arguments

The Supreme Court wrapped up its arguments Wednesday with a case in which two of the three lawyers who took part are women

The Independent UK

Oral Argument Indicates Property Rights Likely to Prevail in Supreme Court Home Equity Theft Takings Case

The decision may even be unanimous.

Reason

Supreme Court seems to tilt strongly toward grandmother in property rights case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard its last scheduled argument of the term — a case brought by a 94-year-old grandmother in Minneapolis whose condo was seized for failure to pay property taxes.

WEKU

Roberts refuses to testify before Senate

Dems said the hearing will go on with or without the participation of Roberts or the other justices

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The Independent UK

Supreme Court on ethics issues: Not broken, no fix needed

The Supreme Court is speaking with one voice in response to recent criticism of the justices’ ethical practices: No need to fix what isn’t broken

AFP

US high court chief declines to testify on ethics questions

Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court's Chief Justice John Roberts is refusing to testify in Congress about business dealings by two conservative justices and lavish gifts one received that have raised ethics issues.

The Independent UK

Justice Neil Gorsuch sold $2m property to owner of legal firm with cases before Supreme Court

Growing discontent about Court’s lax ethical guardrails has yet to be seriously addressed by justices

AFP

US high court chief refuses to testify on ethics questions

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The Guardian - US

Biden dismisses concerns about his age: ‘It doesn’t register with me’ – as it happened

Oldest president to seek re-election tackles issue a day after officially kicking off his 2024 bid

The Guardian - US

Democrats condemn Roberts’ refusal to testify over US supreme court ethics row

Chief justice declined to face Senate judiciary committee after reports of Clarence Thomas’s ties with Republican megadonor

The Guardian - US

Chief Justice John Roberts declines to appear at Senate judiciary hearing

After reports of ties between Justice Clarence Thomas and a Republican donor, the Senate invited Roberts to testify about judicial ethics

The Independent UK

Roberts declines Senate request to testify on court ethics

Chief Justice John Roberts has declined a request from the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify at a hearing next week on ethical standards at the court, instead providing the panel with a statement of ethics reaffirmed by the court’s justices

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Chief Justice Roberts declines to testify before Senate panel

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing to examine proposals to hold Supreme Court justices to the same ethical standards as the rest of the federal judiciary.

The Guardian - US

A reasonable supreme court? Hardly. Don’t be fooled by this extremist establishment

Recent stay on the abortion pill ban is a contest between conservative institutionalists and ideologues on the court

Chicago Sun-Times

Durbin must invite Clarence Thomas to testify about gifts, free travel from Harlan Crow

If Thomas doesn’t show up to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his ties to the Republican billionaire Crow, make the declination part of the rapidly growing record against the Supreme Court justice.

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