Justice Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court
Justice Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court
Justice Samuel Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court. He becomes the first member of the court to take a public stand against proposals in Congress to toughen ethics rules for the justices.
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Fortunately, congress does have the power to impeach and remove a supreme court judge.
It would be, if we elected people who cared more about doing good than they do about increasing their own fortunes.
In theory. In practice getting 2/3 of the Senate to agree on anything is pretty much impossible.
They're all multi-millionaires, and care much, much more about increasing their wealth than they do about doing meaningful good. Remember when we found out both Republican and Democratic senators exploited their classified COVID briefings to make money on stocks?
bOtH sIdEs!
Both sides literally did that, yes.