Congress has an oversight role. It's not obvious that the Supreme Court is going to grant that or agree with that if there is ultimately legislation. But I think that Congress could either require the court to adopt its own code, which seems to me to be the most sort of compromise solution. And a third possibility would be to require the full court to rule on disqualification motions.
US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s failure to disclose lavish vacations paid for by a Texas billionaire have cast a harsh light on the High Court’s ethics rules—or lack of them. Bloomberg Supreme Court correspondent Greg Stohr joins this episode to talk about the fallout and why the justices are pushing back against greater disclosure rules. And Northwestern University law professor Steven Lubet explains what if anything can be done to require more transparency from the most powerful judges in the nation.
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