The Ethics Code for the Supreme Court

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Gorsuch has been accused of accepting massive gifts from a billionaire for 25 years. This is as bad as the Abe Fortis scandal in the 1960s, which was a different corruption scandal that led to justice Abe Fortis resigning from the court. If the Supreme Court had an ethics code, what it could do is it could have an outside body whose job is to look at these kinds of transactions.

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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