The conservative justice indicated support for a code of conduct similar to the one that applies to lower federal court judges.
Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett indicated Monday she would support a code of conduct for the Supreme Court in the wake of recent claims that some justices have fallen short of required ethical standards.
Speaking at the University of Minnesota Law School, Barrett said it would be “a good idea for us do it” and suggested that the justices are broadly in support of a set of principles similar to those that lower court judges are required to follow.
“There is no lack of consensus among the justices. There’s unanimity among all nine justices that we should and do hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards possible,” she added.
What she is really saying:
“The writing is on the wall that a code of ethics is going to be implemented, so let’s try to get something penned down while we still have a conservative majority.”
And while there’s a chance Trump will be the next president so he can throw out the remaining liberal judges and bring in basically far-right extremists
You’re down voting this guy, but isn’t this exactly what they tried to do in Wisconsin? They only backed down because asked impartial retired justices to weigh in, who advised against impeaching a judge just because she disagrees with Republicans.
Donald Trump would not bother asking (or checking to see if he has the authority to do so) he would just do it.
Trump and his extremist mob will do literally anything they can think of with zero concern for law, consequences, any of that.
Imagine your only drive is to grab as much power as possible at any cost (except to yourself) and you have no conscience, no ethics, no empathy, no sense of responsibility to anyone or anything but you. Because that’s the type we’re dealing with, here.
Reminder Amy Coney Barrett swore an oath to God to obey her husband above all other mortals, including herself, her fellow justices, and U.S. law. A set of ethics rules drawn up by SCOTUS would be chump change for her oath.
It’s not even that rare.
My buddy married a completely normal woman, but to get married in her family’s church part of their ceremony had to include her swearing to God that she’ll obey her husband no matter what.
They didn’t take it seriously, but lots of her church take it literally. Women are still just property in their sect of Christianity. And the biggest part of marriage is transferring “ownership” from father to husband.
Jeez, I didn’t even make that strict of an oath when I married my fucking Domme! Sometimes people are wrong in an emergency or you have expertise or ethics that you can’t explain to the person due to time or ethical expectations of privacy. As humans we need to maintain a responsibility to disobey anyone in certain circumstances.
Conservative Christians take their lifestyle bdsm too far and need to stop pushing it on others
Yeah, it’s not like it was just part of the vows either.
It was it’s own like 5 minute thing, and once it was done, then they were allowed to exchange vows to get married.
But she had to swear to obey him first.
Lifestyle bdsm? I haven’t heard that one before but I like it. I don’t consent to being a part of this.
It’s fucked up. The verses are right there in the Bible commanding obedience of wives to husbands, so anyone who leans more literal / fundamentalist is going to follow them.
And then you get religious leaders telling abused women to remain in the marriage and continue being abused, no concept of sexual consent between husband and wife, etc.
This is what happens when your religion is based on antiquated, misogynistic social mores from two thousand years ago.
When women are treated as equals, not only does nothing bad happen (god zapping people from heaven, plagues, locusts, Satan dancing around in glee or whatever the fuck else), but things improve for women and relationships are far better, too.
Anyone who thinks treating women as equals is Wrong™ and spells eternal damnation desperately needs to do some very deep, harsh self-reflection to determine how they have become so twisted.
SCOTUS is only considering this because there’s a chance that if they don’t, congress will. And if congress sets the rules, they also determine the punishment. The court wouldn’t want to permit that sort of check against their power.
It would be truly interesting to see congress write a law governing the behavior of the Supreme Court. If the legislation is written properly, I think it would be permissable, but I wonder if the Supreme Court would just strike it down.
These statements by her and Kavanaugh indicate they think there’s a real risk of having ethics laws passed – and/or they hate Thomas. I get the impression that he and Alito are awful coworkers.
Was it Clarence that was watching porn and showing people at work? I can’t remember or I may be confusing him with some other asshole Republican
“There is no lack of consensus among the justices. There’s unanimity among all nine justices that we should and do hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards possible,” she added.
We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing or conflicts of interest.
… in the wake of recent claims that some justices have fallen short of required ethical standards.
The single most indirect, passive, and euphemistic way to say that conservative justices have been caught accepting extravagant gifts from people who have stakes in their rulings, while failing to declare that conflict of interest.
She’s lying, of course. If she gave a rat’s ass about the legitimacy of SCOTUS she wouldn’t have accepted nomination in the first place.
