“A noxious cocktail of rightwing billionaires...amenable justices...and secrecy has been brewing at the Supreme Court,” Sen. Whitehouse said. “To repair the American public’s trust...the justices need to...[enforce] process for investigating misconduct.'
last week, Justice Samuel Alito, a conservative, lamented what he believes are unfair attacks on the court and a lack of defense from other legal elites.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who has been critical of the court’s rightward shift for years, is pushing his proposed Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act in response to the recent stories. The legislation would require the court to adopt more rigorous disclosure rules in line with those required of members of Congress.
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