'We are not imperial': Justice Kagan says Supreme Court still subject to checks and balances
'We are not imperial': Justice Kagan says Supreme Court still subject to checks and balances
Justice Elena Kagan declined Thursday to outright answer the question of whether Congress could impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court, but she did allow that it could do “various things” to regulate the high court.
Justice Elena Kagan declined Thursday to outright answer the question of whether Congress could impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court, but she did allow that it could do “various things” to regulate the high court.
“It just can’t be that the court is the only institution that is somehow not subject to any checks and balances from anybody else,” she said, adding, “I mean, we are not imperial.”
“We, too, are part of a checks and balances system,” she said.
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Her comment doesn't sound very certain. "It just can't be" sounds the same as "I'm sure there's something they can do". She doesn't actually know and is unwilling to give any examples.
Did you consider reading more than the
headlineblurb in the post?The liberal justice declined to say much more about a bill that advanced out of the Democrat-led Senate Judiciary Committee at the end of July – meant to force the Supreme Court to adopt a stronger ethics policy – for fear legal challenges surrounding the issues could someday land before the court.
You want the Supreme Court to prescribe the form of regulation congress can have on it?