{"id":1923221,"date":"2023-05-03T03:11:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-say-supreme-court-should-adopt-code-of-conduct-as-republicans-allege-partisan-attack\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T03:14:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T07:14:36","slug":"democrats-say-supreme-court-should-adopt-code-of-conduct-as-republicans-allege-partisan-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-say-supreme-court-should-adopt-code-of-conduct-as-republicans-allege-partisan-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems want Supreme Court to adopt code of conduct, GOP claims bias."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-say-supreme-court-should-adopt-code-of-conduct-as-republicans-allege-partisan-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923221&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Democrats and Republicans Clash Over Supreme Court Ethics<\/h2>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0502\/ded87d81-7a32-4be0-a8a4-c6c7fbb3fcd6\/audio.mp3?length=5957613&#038;duration=496\"><\/div>\n<p>At a recent oversight hearing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-military-retaliates-after-rockets-fired-from-syria\/\" title=\"Israeli military retaliates after rockets fired from Syria\">tensions ran high<\/a> as Democrats and Republicans debated the need for a code of conduct governing the behavior of Supreme Court justices. Democrats argued that such a code was necessary, while Republicans accused them of manufacturing a phony ethics crisis to justify cracking down on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-rules-transgender-sex-offender-cant-change-name-to-avoid-sex-offender-registry\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Transgender Sex Offender Can't Change Name to Avoid Sex Offender Registry\">conservative-led court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>The Clarence Thomas Controversy<\/h3>\n<p>The discussion centered largely on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who was recently revealed to have taken luxurious vacations provided by wealthy Republican donor Harlan Crow without publicly disclosing them. Democrats claim that the gifts are proof of corruption, but legal experts say that Thomas did nothing wrong in not disclosing the vacations, which he was advised did not have to be reported. Furthermore, there was no conflict of interest because Crow did not have any business before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<h3>Roberts Declines Invitation<\/h3>\n<p>Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) invited Chief Justice John Roberts to testify at the hearing in person, but Roberts declined, saying that attending could harm the independence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">judiciary<\/a>. Durbin criticized Roberts for not attending, calling it &#8220;judicial malpractice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roberts&#8217; letter (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Letter%20to%20Chairman%20Durbin%2004.25.2023.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) included a &#8220;Statement on Ethics, Principles, and Practices&#8221; signed by all nine Supreme Court justices, in which they reiterated that they voluntarily follow the rules established by the Judicial Conference of the United States, a body created by Congress. However, legal experts say that it is not clear whether they are required to do so, as the Supreme Court has a special status that allows it to regulate its own internal workings.<\/p>\n<h3>Congress Must Act<\/h3>\n<p>Durbin slammed the court, saying that &#8220;the Supreme Court of the United States of America does not consider itself bound by these rules.&#8221; He argued that if &#8220;the court will not act, Congress must.&#8221; Other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/photos-of-unusual-proximity-between-rittenhouse-and-judge-spark-commentary-tells-you-everything-you-need-to-know\/\" title=\"Photos Of \u2018Unusual Proximity\u2019 Between Rittenhouse And Judge Spark Commentary: \u2018Tells You Everything You Need To Know\u2019\">legal experts agreed<\/a>, with former Judge Michael Luttig stating that Congress has the power to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-say-supreme-court-should-adopt-code-of-conduct-as-republicans-allege-partisan-attack\/\" title=\"Dems want Supreme Court to adopt code of conduct, GOP claims bias.\">enact laws prescribing ethical standards<\/a> for the Supreme Court, and Amanda Frost, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, arguing that recurring ethics violations by some justices demand a congressional response.<\/p>\n<h3>Republicans Accuse Democrats of Attacking the Court<\/h3>\n<p>However, Republicans, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), accused Democrats of attacking the legitimacy of the court, which has become more conservative in recent years. Graham dismissed the Democrats&#8217; efforts, saying that &#8220;this is not going to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats told a tense oversight hearing that the Supreme Court must adopt a code of conduct governing justices\u2019 behavior or Congress will impose one on them, while Republicans pushed back, saying Democrats have manufactured a phony ethics crisis to justify cracking down on the conservative-led court. Discussion at the May 2 hearing largely centered on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":1923222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[13179,5050,4856,8599,10101,4733,3933,6203,4730],"class_list":["post-1923221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-adopt","tag-bias","tag-claims","tag-code","tag-conduct","tag-court","tag-dems","tag-gop","tag-supreme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}