The Importance of Preserving Judicial Independence

Senator dik durbin the chair of the senate judiciary committee had invited chief justice john roberts to testify before the committee regarding supreme court ethics. The chief justice declined the invitation citing separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence. There's a bill that was introduced this week by main senator angis king and by elasco center elisa morkowski that is a pretty good job of actually splitting the difference it doesn't dictate a code of conduct but says hey supreme court you must adopt a formal code of conduct.