Fundamental american idea that our nation was founded on. we didn't want certain individuals like king george the third, who we overthrew to be above the law judges are subject to checks and balances and to federal law like anybody else no wonder the supreme court is in an ethics crisis. the combination of these enormous amounts of luxury travel by justice thomas, also involving justice alito, the second largest recipient of gifts over that same period of time and their spouses conduct that raises questions about their ability to sit on cases they should have recused from those cases. when i was the ethics tsar in the white house, i wouldn't allow even if the rules permitted it. i wouldn't allow white house staff to take