This comes after pressure over revelations of undisclosed luxury trips & hobnobbing with wealthy benefactors.

The code contains sections codifying that justices should not allow outside relationships to influence their official conduct or judgment, placing restrictions on justices participating in fundraising and reiterating limits on the accepting of gifts. It also states that justices should not “to any substantial degree” use their judicial resources or staff to engage in non-official activities.

Note that it sounds like this has NOT been officially adopted yet and so far there is no obvious means of enforcement.

See also: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/us/politics/supreme-court-ethics-code.html

Edit: Politco has posted the PDF of the “CODE OF CONDUCT FOR JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES”

  • coyotino [he/him]English
    10•2 years ago

    To me, it feels like this is just written confirmation that they functionally have no code of ethics. They’ve been dodging the question for months, so I guess this is progress?

    • raccoona_nongrata
      8•2 years ago

      And to expect them to make their own code of ethics when they are the ones who’ve been taking tons of inappropriate gifts and favors seems kind of silly. There should be some kind of independent body writing these rules.

      • @[email protected]
        4•2 years ago

        More to the point, there are some perfectly suitable rules that every other federal judge is bound to, we don’t need a new set of rules at all.

    • @[email protected]
      3•2 years ago

      I mean, aren’t they just saying they have to promise bribes aren’t impacting their decisions while confirming they can definitely use official resources for unofficial reasons?

      Seems like it’s just codifying the wrong things.