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Dont impose your own ethics code, we will impose one on you with, and that includes recusal rules. so lets say they pass something like that. that would then, presumably, be adjudicated, if it were challenged, and until go up to the supreme court, i assume. >> yes. it would be an awkward matter to adjudicate. but the supreme court would be within its authority to adjudicate it because it is a law passed by congress, and it is the, it is -- there is a constitutional question here. and i suspect w...

ABC-7 has obtained the Letter of Reprimand the City of El Paso Ethics Review Commission sent to Representative Cassandra Hernandez

Push back strongly against. >> barbara mcquade, always good to have you on the program. thank you so much. new information that undermining pressure, supreme court justices have been talking about a possible ethics code. justice elena kagan declaring her support for a supreme court code but says the justices were divided on how to proceed. justin kagan told a conference, quote, it wont be surprise to know the nine of us have a variety of views about this. the high court has been under scrutiny...

“Questionable ethical conduct by several justices this year show the need for an ethics code,” writes UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

(The Center Square) — Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee is being investigated by the state Ethics Commission over allegations that he violated campaign finance laws by accepting a free lunch

Dangerous this is going to get worse as we have artificial intelligence, deep fakes, all sorts of images and videos, the internet of people saying and doing things they did not do or say. >> well, lets talk about democracy, specifically supreme court justice samuel alito, because he told the wall street journals today, the congress does not have the power to impose an ethics code on the supreme court. as a historian of democracy, what do you make of that? >> number one, it is legally false. cong...

Zarrella claims the party is retaliating against him for leaving the party through an ethics complaint he says is false and misleading.

Justice john robertss refusal to tackle go the glaring ethical lapses that dominated the supreme court term. congress is finally taking action. is it week the senate judiciary committee advance legislation that would tighten disclosure recuse of rules that would require the court to finally adopt a formal ethics code. but thats as far as this bill might go. the new york times reports that center republicans have made it clear they will not support this legislation and has no chance of passing in...

Or senior correspondent at fox, and no -- president of citizens for -- welcome to you both. lets start with you. propublica points out that the proposed code of ethics, which the court would create and publish, does not lay out in detail what rules they should include. what have you seen in your reporting, and are there potential pitfalls that could really damage the progress of this legislation? >> there are two huge pitfalls. one is that republicans control the house, and in much the way same ...

Protected donald trump from impeachment when democrats tried to move him from office, i suspect that they are likely to protect people like clarence thomas and samuel alito from this ethics code. the other problem is that, lets say it passes. now what? what do you do when thomas and alito say, well, i am going to keep flying on billionaires jets? the only way to remove them from office is impeachment. that takes 67 votes in the senate. my biggest concern about this is that even if it passes, wha...