It's not every day when a senator demands that the Supreme Court's chief justice take action against a fellow justice over ethics concerns.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is demanding that Chief Justice John Roberts take action over an unusual interview in which conservative Justice Samuel Alito questioned whether Congress has the power to impose ethics rules on the Supreme Court., dated Monday, with the chief justice.
“The recent actions by Justice Alito present an opportunity to determine a mechanism for applying the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act to justices of the Supreme Court. Nothing prohibits the Court or the Judicial Conference from adopting procedures to address complaints of misconduct. The most basic modicum of any due process is fair fact-finding; second to that is independent decision-making.”
Or put another way, the Democratic senator took his concerns to Roberts because he didn’t know what else to do, and he saw no alternatives for recourse. The chief justice has not yet responded to Whitehouse. It’s an open question as to whether Roberts will do anything at all in response to the senator’s complaint.
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