The Importance of Proper Conduct in the Supreme Court

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There is no known precedent for this in the modern history of the Supreme Court. Experts told us that Thomas appears to have broken the law, although maybe not in the way that you'd expect. There are very few rules restricting what gifts Supreme Court justices can accept.

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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