Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) raised his concerns about Supreme Court ethics to Chief Justice John Roberts's face during a closed-door conference on Tuesday.
Durbin was invited to the biannual meeting for the 26-member Judicial Conference, the policymaking body for the federal judiciary, and sat next to Roberts, sources told several outlets on Wednesday.
Investigative reports have uncovered a trail of perceived ethical lapses by the justices in recent months. Democrats like Durbin and Whitehouse, who think the court needs an enforceable code of ethics, point to historic low approval ratings of the Supreme Court that sank around the time the 6-3 Republican-appointed majority on the high court upended abortion access precedent under Roe v. Wade last summer.
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