Breaking Down the Supreme Court’s Code of Ethics

Last week the Supreme Court announced that it adopted a formal code of ethics, endorsed by all nine Justices. In this episode, Professor Daniel Epps of Washington University School of Law and Professor Stephen Vladeck of the University of Texas School of Law join Jeffrey Rosen to break down the Supreme Court ethics code and explore questions about how it will be applied and enforced. 

Resources: 

•  Supreme Court of the United States, Statement of the Court Regarding the Code of Conduct, Nov. 13, 2023 
• Daniel Epps and Will Baude, “Easy Win,” Divided Argument (podcast)  
• Steve Vladeck, “One and a Half Cheers for the Supreme Court,” One First substack, Nov. 16, 2023. 
• Steve Vladeck, “Opinion: The Supreme Court code of conduct misses this big thing,” CNN, Nov. 14, 2023  
• Steve Vladeck, “An Article III Inspector-General,” One First substack, Oct. 19, 2023. 
• Epps, Daniel and Trammell, Alan M., “The False Promise of Jurisdiction Stripping” (March 8, 2023). Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming.  

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