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Lawmakers and ethics experts this week renewed calls for a binding code of conduct for U.S. Supreme Court justices in response to a New York Times report describing a secret lobbying campaign by evangelical leaders to influence conservative justices, which linked Justice Samuel Alito Jr. to an alleged confidentiality breach in 2014.
House Republicans sent the first major signal of their Biden administration oversight targets Friday, sending letters to the White House chief of staff and top officials at the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security seeking to jump-start inquiries ahead of next year.
A South Carolina judge nominated to the Fourth Circuit touted her significant state court experience and defended against Republican criticisms of her handling of a particular criminal case in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an emergency request from the chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party seeking to block a subpoena for her phone records issued by the House Jan. 6 committee to T-Mobile, with only Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr. noting their dissents.
The midterm elections will dictate the next two years of President Joe Biden's impact on the federal bench, but there are still dozens of judicial nominees awaiting confirmation this year who could be approved regardless of which party wins control of the Senate.