The interviews prompted Democratic lawmakers, including Senator Richard J. #Durbin, the chairman of the #Senate #Judiciary Committee, to urge Justice #Alito to step aside when the court hears the case in the coming term, saying that they cast doubt on his ability to be an #impartial #arbiter.

#CourtReform #Corruption #JudicalEthics #law #legal #judiciary

The latest hit to the Supreme Court’s credibility shows it won’t police itself

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/4182046-the-latest-hit-to-the-supreme-courts-credibility-shows-it-wont-police-itself/

#SupremeCourt #Credibility #Policing #SelfRegulation #Judiciary #CourtReform #Politics #News

A Federal Judge Asks: Does the Supreme Court Realize How Bad It Smells?

By Judge Michael Ponsor, snr judge on the US District Court for the District of MA.

“You don’t just stay inside the lines; you stay well inside the lines. This is not a matter of politics or judicial philosophy. It is ethics in the trenches.”

#SCOTUS #SCOTUSstench #JudicialEthics #CourtReform #TermLimits
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/opinion/supreme-court-ethics.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

by #BillBlum in #Alternet:

"Given the Supreme Court’s recent track record and its virtually unchecked power, such inaction can no longer be justified. With its six-member Republican supermajority, including three justices appointed by Donald Trump, the court is driving the country and American law backward.

"The court’s extremism is inflaming voter anger and will likely be a key driver of turnout in the 2024 election. Biden should be shrewd enough to harness that anger. It is not sufficient for him to acknowledge that the Supreme Court isn’t 'normal.' It’s time for him to recognize that the court is broken, and the only way to fix it is to expand it."

https://www.alternet.org/biden-comes-up-short-court/

#Biden #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #CourtReform #USPolitics #USPol #politics

by #EricSegall in #DorfOnLaw:

"The Court is not a court, and its justices are not judges."

http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2023/05/65-reasons-why-supreme-court-is.html?spref=tw&m=1

#SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #politics #USPolitics #CourtReform

#tuesdaythoughts
1. #CourtReform now because integrity is an endangered species
2. #LGBTQ leaders should create their own religion to gain their rights, the cognitive dissonance in the courts would be mind blowing
3. Petty politicians are the worst #desantisvsdisney

https://hillreporter.com/watch-aoc-says-chief-justice-roberts-has-to-speak-out-on-clarence-thomas #AOC The New York congresswoman continued, "I do believe Chief Justice John Roberts must now come forward and state if he allows, and is allowing, this kind of very serious corruption to happen on on this court. I do not think that this court any longer has legitimacy." #IllegitimateSCOTUS #ClarenceThomasCorruption #ExpandTheCourt #CourtReform

Outside groups take a first stab at a Supreme Court ethics code https://www.npr.org/2023/03/09/1162324746/outside-groups-take-a-first-stab-at-a-supreme-court-ethics-code #IllegitimateSCOTUS Two groups have written what they call a model code of conduct for the Supreme Court. And it's getting generally favorable reviews. The groups are the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan, independent government watchdog, and the Lawyers Defending American Democracy #SCOTUScorruption #ExpandTheCourt #CourtReform

@kims @Dahlialith @heidilifeldman Thomas & many others [impeached] before him are proof, that the assumption, that lifetime appointments of judges & justices would guarantee judicial independence, may have been appropriate at the time of the Founders, when codes of honor used to be observed, but proves to be naively failing today, in times of broken #SeparationOfPowers & extreme partisanship.

#RuleOfLaw #JudicialTermLimits #JudicialIndependence #CourtReform #SeparationOfPowers #SeparationOfChurchAndState #BanFedSoc

The Supreme Court’s internal investigation into who leaked a draft of the opinion overturning #RoeVsWade, the 1973 decision that had established a constitutional right to #abortion, included interviews w/all nine justices, the marshal of the court said in a statement on Friday.

#SCOTUS #SCOTUSstench #PartisanCourt #CourtReform #SCOTUSleak #Dobbs #Justice

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/us/politics/supreme-court-leak-justices.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

For #JohnEastman & #ClarenceThomas, an intellectual kinship stretching back decades
The #SupremeCourt justice & the atty referred by the House #Jan6 panel for #criminal investigation became acquainted years b4 Eastman served as Thomas’s clerk.
@emmersbrown @postroz @washingtonpost
#SCOTUS
#Insurrection
#Obstruction
#Conspiracy
#January6th #TrumpCoupAttempt
#CourtReform #TermLimits
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/12/23/john-eastman-clarence-thomas-clerk/

The revelations of the Roberts court this week place his orchestration of Citizens United (2010) in a newer, and more disturbing, context. We already knew the ideological leaning of the court. What we didn’t know, however, is the lobbying blitz behind the scenes to court them. At the very least, we now know beyond any doubt (much less reasonable doubt) that we can’t trust them to operate without an ethics code. #courtreform https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/05/21/money-unlimited