{"id":1924430,"date":"2023-05-04T18:41:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-could-withhold-funds-to-compel-supreme-court-to-adopt-ethics-rules\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T18:43:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:43:54","slug":"democrats-could-withhold-funds-to-compel-supreme-court-to-adopt-ethics-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-could-withhold-funds-to-compel-supreme-court-to-adopt-ethics-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems may withhold funds to force SCOTUS to adopt ethics rules."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-could-withhold-funds-to-compel-supreme-court-to-adopt-ethics-rules%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=1924430&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--><p>Senate Democrats Push for Stricter Ethics Guidelines for Supreme Court Justices<\/p>\n<p>A group of 15 Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), are calling for the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt stricter guidelines for disclosing income sources and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-taps-ex-colleague-of-hunter-bidens-lawyer-to-temporarily-run-doj-criminal-division\/\" title=\"Biden Taps Ex-Colleague Of Hunter Biden\u2019s Lawyer To Temporarily Run DOJ Criminal Division\">potential conflicts<\/a> of interest. The group has suggested withholding up to $10 million in funds from the court unless the Chief Justice notifies Congress that the court has implemented a public code of ethics for justices. The new guidelines must cover circumstances requiring disqualifications and recusals, the receipt and disposition of requests related to disqualifications and recusals, and the publication of such dispositions and the reasons therefor. The Democrats believe that Congress has the authority to compel the Supreme Court to institute these reforms, and that the appropriations power is one tool for achieving these changes. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are among the senators who have signed onto the letter. <\/p>\n<p>ProPublica recently published a series of articles claiming that conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted numerous <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\">gifts<\/a> and vacation trips from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-republicans-battle-over-supreme-court-ethics-questions-in-senate-hearing\/\" title=\"Senate hearing sees Democrats and Republicans clash over Supreme Court ethics.\">wealthy personal friend<\/a>, without disclosing the gifts. The reports indicated Thomas vacationed with Harlan Crow, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-could-withhold-funds-to-compel-supreme-court-to-adopt-ethics-rules\/\" title=\"Dems may withhold funds to force SCOTUS to adopt ethics rules.\">successful real estate developer<\/a> who has donated to Republican candidates, conservative-leaning organizations, and a centrist political organization called No Labels. Thomas has denied any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats want the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt stricter guidelines for disclosing their income sources and potential conflicts of interest, and at least 14 Democratic senators see withholding funds from the court as a way to get their demands. In a March 31 letter (pdf) to Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1924431,"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":[13179,3933,4381,4649,4543,3807,6994,9523],"class_list":["post-1924430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-adopt","tag-dems","tag-ethics","tag-force","tag-funds","tag-rules","tag-scotus","tag-withhold"],"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\/1924430","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\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}