The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.
The worst part is that he didn’t break any rules because there aren’t any in place. Honestly, what he does is no worse than what any other judges do and the only way forward is through preventative measures.
That’s not true. Other judges in in other US courts have ethical codes of conduct. Other justices on the supreme Court that accept gifts report them through proper disclosures.
“The federal statute, the Ethics in Government Act, very clearly applies to the justices, and it very clearly requires disclosure of these gifts of travel. And so the law itself, for any textualist judge, which Alito and Thomas are, should make it clear to them that they have to disclose.”
The worst part is that he didn’t break any rules because there aren’t any in place. Honestly, what he does is no worse than what any other judges do and the only way forward is through preventative measures.
That’s not true. Other judges in in other US courts have ethical codes of conduct. Other justices on the supreme Court that accept gifts report them through proper disclosures.
“The federal statute, the Ethics in Government Act, very clearly applies to the justices, and it very clearly requires disclosure of these gifts of travel. And so the law itself, for any textualist judge, which Alito and Thomas are, should make it clear to them that they have to disclose.”
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1193693798