Supreme Court justices are under increasing scrutiny for alleged ethical lapses but have repeatedly refused to adopt the same code followed by lower court judges.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and his wife, Jane, leave the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington after the funeral of Justice Antonin Scalia on Feb. 20, 2016.
on Thursday that would require the justices to adopt a code. Similar efforts in recent years have failed. Murphy has more than 20 co-sponsors in the Senate, and companion legislation in the House of Representatives is set to be introduced by Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga. Any effort by Congress to intervene could raise constitutional questions because lawmakers would be meddling in the internal affairs of a separate branch of government. But the Supreme Court already follows recusal and financial disclosure rules that were adopted by Congress. The court, as Roberts noted in 2011,"has never addressed whether Congress may impose those requirements.
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