Senate Judiciary panel to consider ethics rules for Supreme Court
The committee’s legislation would impose new standards for transparency around recusals, gifts and potential conflicts of interest
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Affirmative action ruling divides the Supreme Court’s Black justices
Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson lashed out at one another over the best way to end historical discrimination of minorities
Supreme Court ethics scandals: Luxury yachts, million-dollar contracts and a $19,000 Bible
Controversy over gifts received by Justice Clarence Thomas from a Republican donor puts the spotlight on who controls the untouchable members of the nation’s highest court and opens a debate on its reform
Street near Miami named for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
‘I hope that this street naming will also serve as a testament to what is possible in this great country,’ said Brown, the first Black woman to serve as a US Supreme Court justice
Justice Jackson writes 1st Supreme Court majority opinion
Each justice typically writes at least one opinion from the seven separate two-week arguments sessions the court holds from early October to late April
Justice Thomas wrote of ‘crushing weight’ of student loans
Thomas, the court’s longest-serving justice and staunchest conservative, has been skeptical of other Biden administration initiatives
‘Moore v. Harper’: A threat to US democracy or a meaningless exaggeration?
Conservative Supreme Court justices are leaning towards removing checks and balances on state legislatures in drawing up electoral rules and maps
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