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RainCaster

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5. Joe can set up a watch dog program for SCOTUS

Reply to dlk (Original post)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 06:19 PM

Oct 2020

If all their payola is published weekly, along with the list of those who voted for them... And the lobbyists paying for their decisions.

Could we convince them to police themselves?
Nah- what was I thinking.

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The U. S. Supreme Court should have an ethics code [View all] dlk Oct 2020 OP

That needs to go on Joe's to-do list! Karadeniz Oct 2020 #1

Joe no can do . . . MousePlayingDaffodil Oct 2020 #3

The resistance to implementing such a code of conduct taints the court dlk Oct 2020 #6

There is already a judicial code of conduct but it doesn't apply to the SC. alwaysinasnit Oct 2020 #2

There must be some ethics that can be applied to SCOTUS empedocles Oct 2020 #4

Impeachment StarfishSaver Oct 2020 #10

Joe can set up a watch dog program for SCOTUS RainCaster Oct 2020 #5

Foxes guarding the henhouse... dlk Oct 2020 #7

1) What's your basis for saying there isn't one? brooklynite Oct 2020 #8

+1 onenote Oct 2020 #13

For example, there is no rule requiring a SCOTUS judge to recuse if there is a conflict of interest dlk Oct 2020 #9

McConnell bdamomma Oct 2020 #11

Power grab. Yes. Illegal? No. onenote Oct 2020 #14

Unprecedented move bdamomma Oct 2020 #15

Unprecedented. Yes. Illegal. No. onenote Oct 2020 #16

They should be more like this: Turbineguy Oct 2020 #12

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