{"id":39032,"date":"2023-07-31T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T13:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39032"},"modified":"2023-07-31T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T13:45:07","slug":"a-bit-of-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/07\/31\/a-bit-of-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit Of Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruth Marcus of WaPo<\/strong><\/em> writes<\/a> about Justice Alito’s recent predilection for writing op-eds in the Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/em>, and his allergy to legislation requiring ethics regulation of SCOTUS<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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But let\u2019s assume, charitably, that Alito meant to contain himself to ethics rules. He\u2019s still\u00a0wrong<\/a>. Since 1948, Congress has\u00a0required<\/a>\u00a0federal judges \u2014 including Supreme Court justices \u2014 to recuse themselves from deciding cases in which their \u201cimpartiality might reasonably be questioned.\u201d Is that unconstitutional? Since 1978, it has required federal judges \u2014 including justices \u2014 to file financial disclosure forms. Is that unconstitutional? (The justices, including Alito,\u00a0say they voluntarily<\/a>\u00a0follow those rules.) Since 1989, it has\u00a0imposed strict limits<\/a>\u00a0on outside income and gifts for federal judges \u2014 including justices. Is that unconstitutional? Just last year, Congress amended the\u00a0ethics rules to mandate<\/a> that federal judges \u2014 including justices \u2014 promptly disclose their stock transaction. Is that unconstitutional?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I can’t help but see such a law being appealed to, ummmm, SCOTUS<\/strong><\/u> eventually. And if the liberal wing was paying attention, they’d all recuse themselves. For obvious reasons.<\/p>\n

Leaving the conservatives holding the bag. Find such a law unconstitutional? Or accept that they, like their colleagues in inferior courts, must meet minimum ethical requirements?<\/p>\n

Or all recuse themselves?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ruth Marcus of WaPo writes about Justice Alito’s recent predilection for writing op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, and his allergy to legislation requiring ethics regulation of SCOTUS: But let\u2019s assume, charitably, that Alito meant to contain himself to ethics rules. He\u2019s still\u00a0wrong. Since 1948, Congress has\u00a0required\u00a0federal judges \u2014 including \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39037,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39032\/revisions\/39037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}