Most Americans want the Supreme Court majority to be sanctioned for corruption & misdemeanors.
The Founders would agree with them.
An ethics reform with a strict Code of Conduct also applicable to SCOTUS justices is overdue.
As much as term limits.
Because lifetime tenure has proven to not be guaranteeing judicial independence.
Especially when single, shady $billions-juggling figures like Leonard Leo, Federalist-Society-mate of the SCOTUS-majority-six are allowed to push 5 of the 6 majority-justices onto the SCOTUS bench.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham gave a long incoherent speech about court packing (though this bill ads no justices) and Sens. John Kennedy and John Cornyn—slavish fans of one Donald Trump—condemned Senate Democrats for a “long campaign of intimidation and harassment” toward right-wing Supreme Court justices. Their argument was that speaking about court ethics reforms will inevitably lead those with unstable minds to attack justices. John Cornyn sought to add an amendment to the ethics bill that would allow federal judges to carry firearms to protect themselves. (Presumably so they can shoot the ethics violations.) Graham won the day with his declaration that “I don’t begrudge them this travel! I wish I could go to some of these places!” And Kennedy wanted an amendment to condemn racist insults directed at Clarence Thomas—but nobody else. To hear Senate Republicans tell it, this is about, as Kennedy says, “Dobbs, and Bruen, and Elonis …” But what they don’t understand is that each of those freedom-seizing decisions is ineluctably connected to the fact that over the course of several decades the Supreme Court was sold to the highest bidder.
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/supreme-court-ethics-reform-support-from-americans.html
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