The Supreme Court on Monday adopted its first code of ethics, in the face of sustained criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices, but the code lacks a means of enforcement. The policy, agreed to by all nine justices, does not appear to impose any significant new requirements and leaves compliance entirely to each justice. Indeed, the justices said they have long adhered to ethics standards and suggested that criticism of the court over ethics was the product of misunderstanding, rather than any missteps by the justices.

The Supreme Court on Monday adopted its first code of ethics, in the face of sustained criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices, but the code lacks a means of enforcement. The policy, agreed to by all nine justices, does not appear to impose any significant new requirements and leaves compliance entirely to each justice. Indeed, the justices said they have long adhered to ethics standards and suggested that criticism of the court over ethics was the product of misunderstanding, rather than any missteps by the justices.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
      72·
      1 year ago

      Don’t let it placate you. “Better than nothing” with zero enforcement is exactly what benefits them most.

      • BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        11·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, now they can claim the problem is fixed, wash their hands of this whole thing and go back to corruption as usual. It’s a completely empty gesture.

    • Unaware7013@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Nah, its worse than nothing. Doing nothing would mean people would still be outraged about it. This meaningless gesture is just there to get people placated and bored so they’ll move on and let the SCROTUS get back to their luxury yacht tours and flying on private planes ‘that were going to be flying anyway’ in peace.