Tue May 2, 2023 – 4:46 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issued a statement last week against a Democratic attempt to impose ethics measures on it after alleging two of its conservative members committed ethics violations.
In a statement released by the Court on Tuesday responding to a request by Democrat U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, for testimony from Chief Justice John Roberts regarding the Court’s ethics standards, all nine SCOTUS Justices said that they reaffirmed the Court’s adherence to general ethical norms used in lower courts, including norms for financial disclosures and recusals.
Speaking about recusals, the statement reads, “If the full Court or any subset of the Court were to review the recusal decisions of individual justices, it would create an undesirable situation in which the Court could affect the outcome of a case by selecting who among its Members may participate.” The statement continued, stating the possibility that public disclosure of the basis of a recusal could “encourage strategic behavior by lawyers who may seek to prompt recusals in future cases.”
The statement also alluded to recent attempts on Justices’ lives with
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