Justices have been accused of accepting lavish gifts and benefiting from undisclosed real estate transactions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - US senators pressed on Tuesday for a binding code of conduct to be forced on the Supreme Court amid a mushrooming scandal over justices accepting lavish gifts and benefiting from undisclosed real estate transactions.
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing came with polls showing that a majority of Americans disapprove of the job being done by the bench of six conservative and three liberal justices.Questions have also been raised about another conservative justice, Neil Gorsuch who, according to Politico, neglected to disclose the buyer of a large vacation home on the Colorado River – the head of a major US law firm which regularly handles cases before the high court.
“Until there is an honest ethics process at the Supreme Court, these messes will continue,” Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse said.Justice Clarence Thomas accepted numerous luxury trips, including on a mega-yacht and private jet, from a real estate billionaire without disclosing them. PHOTO: NYTIMES
They pointed to what they said was inflammatory language by Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer, who warned justices in 2020 they would “pay the price” for poor decisions, and to activists picketing justices’ homes and threatening them.
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