In the aftermath of new revelations about Clarence Thomas’s lucrative friendship with billionaire Harlan Crow, there seems to be little hope that the far-right justice will be held to any ethical standard at all.
Sheldon Whitehouse
tells me. Supreme Court justices should be held to the same ethical standard as any other judge—and if they violate it, asseems to have done, there should be a way to hold them to account. It’s common sense stuff. And yet, in the immediate aftermath of new revelations about Thomas’s lucrative friendship with conservative billionairethere seems to be little hope that the far-right justice will be held to any ethical standard at all.
Still, a tireless champion of judicial reform, the Rhode Island senator is holding onto hope that Thomas’s latest scandal could be the tipping point for reform—even if Democrats have no clear recourse right now to hand down concrete consequences for Thomas’s conduct. “This attention, and this pressure on the court, and the outrage that many federal judges feel, and the prospect of hearings and legislation being debated—that to me is all a big step forward,” Whitehouse says.
His doubt is well-founded; despite years of facing calls for more accountability, the court has declined to establish formal ethics requirements.
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