오늘 오후, 미국 대법원은 윤리 강령을 채택할 것이라고 발표했습니다. 이 조치는 최근 몇 달 동안 드러난 대법원 판사와 관련된 일련의 스캔들에 따른 것입니다. 또한 상원 사법 위원회가 이미 대법원의 윤리 강령을 제정하기 위한 법안을 추진하고 있으며, 이번 주에 최근 스캔들의 핵심인 증인 소환장에 대한 투표가 예정되어 있는 시점에 발표되었습니다.

공통의 원인이 먼저 sounded the alarm regarding Supreme Court ethics more than a decade ago when we exposed unreported travel by then-Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Thomas. Our research also revealed that Justice Thomas for years failed to report 그의 아내의 소득은 대부분이 매우 정치적이고 보수적인 단체에서 나온 것입니다.

Marilyn Carpinteyro, Common Cause 임시 공동 회장의 성명

The U.S. Supreme Court is in desperate need of a binding and permanent ethics code. While today’s announcement is a small step in the right direction, this code of ethics for Justices does not go nearly far enough, as it lacks enforcement and accountability. Congress must continue to move forward with legislation to create a binding code of ethics for the nation’s highest court.

It is telling that the Supreme Court announced its proposed new ethics code just days before the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote to issue subpoenas to wealthy donors at the center of some of the recent Supreme Court scandals.

We strongly urge the Senate Judiciary Committee to follow through in its effort to subpoena witnesses and to get to the full truth behind the scandals. The American people deserve nothing less. Likewise, Congress must move forward to pass legislation to pass a permanent and binding code of ethics for the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act has already passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee under the leadership of Chairman Dick Durbin and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. We hope this long-needed legislation will be passed in both the Senate and the House in short order.

Time and again the U.S. Supreme Court has shown itself incapable of policing its own conduct. The time has come for Congress to act to ensure that the Justices charged with interpreting our Constitution are held to the same ethical standard as every other judge in the nation.