Headline ought to be re-written as "Supreme Court forced to codify once-unwritten rules due to rampant abuse by Justice Thomas."
The US Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time
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Re: The US Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time
#12This is a fine gesture, but it does not solve the fundamental problem that Supreme Court justices are an unelected super-government with lifetime appointments and zero accountability . The whole institution is absurd and undemocratic and, as Clarence Thomas has proved [0], ripe with opportunities for corruption. A non-binding code of ethics doesn't change that. [0]: https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-sco…
Are you proposing we do a Netanyahu-style reform?
Re: The US Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time
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Does the ethics code have removal as a consequence? Does it apply retroactively to past events? If not, then it would seem no one is going anywhere.
Re: The US Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time
#14This is a fine gesture, but it does not solve the fundamental problem that Supreme Court justices are an unelected super-government with lifetime appointments and zero accountability . The whole institution is absurd and undemocratic and, as Clarence Thomas has proved [0], ripe with opportunities for corruption. A non-binding code of ethics doesn't change that. [0]: https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-sco…
> and zero accountability
They can be impeached?
Re: The US Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time
#15This is a fine gesture, but it does not solve the fundamental problem that Supreme Court justices are an unelected super-government with lifetime appointments and zero accountability . The whole institution is absurd and undemocratic and, as Clarence Thomas has proved [0], ripe with opportunities for corruption. A non-binding code of ethics doesn't change that. [0]: https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-sco…
> unelected super-government with lifetime appointments and zero accountability
And what's the problem? That's exactly the point of this system — a part of government that is still _appointed by elected representatives_, but is not populist.
Re: The US Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time
#16This is a fine gesture, but it does not solve the fundamental problem that Supreme Court justices are an unelected super-government with lifetime appointments and zero accountability . The whole institution is absurd and undemocratic and, as Clarence Thomas has proved [0], ripe with opportunities for corruption. A non-binding code of ethics doesn't change that. [0]: https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-sco…
Same is true of most of government. From the FDA to the ATF practical life altering choices are increasingly made by a unelected permanent government unfettered by things like accountability.
Re: The US Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time
#17This is a fine gesture, but it does not solve the fundamental problem that Supreme Court justices are an unelected super-government with lifetime appointments and zero accountability . The whole institution is absurd and undemocratic and, as Clarence Thomas has proved [0], ripe with opportunities for corruption. A non-binding code of ethics doesn't change that. [0]: https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-sco…
It's not really zero accountability. Supreme Court justices are subject to impeachment. It happened once, although Samuel Chase was acquitted. Yes, impeachment is notoriously partisan, but that's democracy?
Re: The US Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time
#18This is a fine gesture, but it does not solve the fundamental problem that Supreme Court justices are an unelected super-government with lifetime appointments and zero accountability . The whole institution is absurd and undemocratic and, as Clarence Thomas has proved [0], ripe with opportunities for corruption. A non-binding code of ethics doesn't change that. [0]: https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-sco…
How did the Supreme Court come into being? How has it been able to fly under the radar like this as being undemocratic?
Re: The US Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time
#19This is a fine gesture, but it does not solve the fundamental problem that Supreme Court justices are an unelected super-government with lifetime appointments and zero accountability . The whole institution is absurd and undemocratic and, as Clarence Thomas has proved [0], ripe with opportunities for corruption. A non-binding code of ethics doesn't change that. [0]: https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-sco…
> and zero accountability They can be impeached?
By us?
Re: The US Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time
#20This is a fine gesture, but it does not solve the fundamental problem that Supreme Court justices are an unelected super-government with lifetime appointments and zero accountability . The whole institution is absurd and undemocratic and, as Clarence Thomas has proved [0], ripe with opportunities for corruption. A non-binding code of ethics doesn't change that. [0]: https://www.propublica.org/series/supreme-court-sco…
Yep. Ruth Ginsburg was another corrupt one, taking lavish trips funded by Israeli billionaires. But whoops, I wasn't supposed to mention the ones people here may like.