The Supreme Court justices discussed, but failed to adopt, a code of ethics.

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First, The New York Times uncovered how corporations have given millions of dollars to a nonprofit connected to the Court in an effort to gain access and influence with justices.1

Then it exposed how Chief Justice John Roberts’s wife, a high-powered corporate law recruiter, has been getting paid millions in commissions by firms with cases before the justices.2

Now, after promising to “seriously study” ethics reform years ago, the justices admitted that they were unable to agree on rules that would require them to disclose donations and recuse themselves in certain circumstances.3

Enough is enough. The Supreme Court can’t be trusted to police itself. That’s why we’ve mobilized more than 200,000 people to ask Congress to pass the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act, requiring the nation’s highest court to follow basic rules of disclosure and recusal.

We need to turn up the heat.

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The bombshell revelations from the Times aren’t the only scandals dogging the Supreme Court.

Justice Clarence Thomas repeatedly refuses to recuse himself from cases about the 2020 election, even though his wife, Ginni, tried to overturn it. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s husband just opened a Washington office for his Indiana law firm.4

In 2019, Justice Elena Kagan told Congress the chief justice was “seriously studying” adopting a code of ethics, but The Washington Post just reported that justices couldn’t reach agreement on one.5

At a time when the Supreme Court is in the process of gutting decades of precedent on voting rights, abortion rights, civil rights, and countless other major issues affecting Americans' lives, the need for a code of ethics is particularly critical.

We’re gaining momentum. The influential American Bar Association has come out in favor of the nation’s highest court adopting a code of ethics. But now we need to double down and build pressure on Congress to make it happen.

Will you donate $10 to help urge Congress to pass a code of ethics for the Supreme Court and push for other key reforms?

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Tihi and the team at Demand Progress Action

Sources:
1. The New York Times, "A Charity Tied to the Supreme Court Offers Donors Access to the Justices," January 1, 2023.
2. The New York Times, "At the Supreme Court, Ethics Questions Over a Spouse’s Business Ties," January 31, 2023.
3. The Washington Post, "Supreme Court justices discussed, but did not agree on, code of conduct," February 9, 2023.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.

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