.SenatorDurbin shares the contours of an ethics overhaul for the Supreme Court he expects his Judiciary Committee to vote on soon
How Senate Democrats Hope to Force the Supreme Court to Adopt an Ethics Code
In an interview with TIME, the Illinois Democrat shared the contours of a bill he expects his committee to vote on after the July 4 recess aimed at forcing the Supreme Court to establish for the first time an ethics code for the justices and clear rules dictating when justices must recuse themselves from cases.
The move to vote on the ethics package, Durbin says, was prompted by recent reporting by ProPublica about Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. The news outlet reported last week that Alito took an expensive fishing trip with prominent GOP donor Paul Singer in 2008, but never reported the fishing trip on his annual disclosure form nor recused himself from cases before the court that involved Singer’s business.
The investigations, Democrats say, underlined how few disclosure requirements are in place and how compliance is often left to the justices themselves. “There’s a grave ethics problem at the Supreme Court and pretty much everybody except the justices knows it,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island who has been probing the Supreme Court’s ethics issues, tells TIME.
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