The Supreme Court's Ethics Code

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There's a hearing on Capitol Hill today to talk about an ethics code for the Supreme Court. Ian Millheiser: The idea that you would have someone on the Supreme Court who has a spouse who is also themselves a very high-powered professional just wasn't something that existed in the 1790s. He says there's a real sense that the court has gone off the rails both because of its substantive decisions and because of fears of corruption.

In a hearing today, the Senate Judiciary Committee took on the Supreme Court’s lack of ethics standards. ProPublica’s Joshua Kaplan explains how his reporting on Justice Clarence Thomas’s history of accepting gifts from a conservative megadonor led to increased scrutiny of the court.

This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Siona Peterous, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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