A Democratic-led Senate panel intends to pursue legislation setting ethical standards for US Supreme Court justices amid revelations about luxury trips and real estate transactions involving members of the nation's top judicial body
"The highest court in the land should not have the lowest ethical standards," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, who asserted at a hearing that the court's failure to fix the problem on its own means Congress must do it instead. "That reality is driving a crisis in public confidence in the Supreme Court. The status quo must change."declining
Separately, the news outlet Politico has reported that conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch failed to disclose the buyer of a Colorado property in which he had a stake - the chief executive of a major law firm whose attorneys have been involved in numerous Supreme Court cases. Another Republican committee member, Senator John Kennedy said the hearing represented "an excuse to sling more mud at an institution that some - not all - some Democrats don't like because they can't control it 100% of the time."
"Justices read the ethics rules in unique and eccentric ways," Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said, "and when they're caught out of bounds, they refuse to allow any investigation of the facts."
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