Brett Kavanaugh says justices are working on ‘concrete steps’ on ethics

Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Thursday that the Supreme Court is working on “concrete steps” to address ethics issues at the high court amid an array of recent news stories on justices’ travel and relationships with political donors.

Appearing before an audience of judges and lawyers during a judicial conference in Ohio, Kavanaugh noted that Chief Justice John Roberts had pledged in May to assure the public that the court was committed to adhering to the highest standards of conduct.

“The chief justice spoke about that in May and said that we are continuing to work on those issues and that is accurate,” Kavanaugh told the audience. “We are continuing to work on those issues and I’m hopeful that there will be some concrete steps taken soon on that.”

preppietechie,
@preppietechie@midwest.social avatar

They could start by at least following the same rules every other federal judge must follow. The fact that they don’t simply agree to those rules and then work on strengthening the rules for members of the highest court in the land shows how disingenuous Kavanaugh’s claims are.

blazera,
@blazera@kbin.social avatar

"Investigated ourselves"

Sharkwellington,

Right? Why tf are they allowed to just write rules for themselves? Wayyy past high time they were reigned in by Congress like checks and balances intended.

uphillbothways,
@uphillbothways@kbin.social avatar

That fucking guy? That they had this clown make a statement about their plans on ethics tells us all we need to know. What fucking jokes these assholes are. Shit is intentional and premeditated.

unconsciousvoidling,

We’re going to limit our bribes to under 5 million a year.

stopthatgirl7,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

Doubt.

Bipta,

This guy couldn't even avoid blaming the Clintons in his confirmation hearing. I have zero confidence in him and neither should you.

Endorkend,
@Endorkend@kbin.social avatar

Just a boofing session or two away.

drdabbles,
@drdabbles@lemmy.world avatar

Gonna be quite the pact, with beer, alleged rape, getting swole with they boys, and everything goes on calendars that’ll be around forever for some reason.

passwordistaco,

Don’t forget about the boofing. There’s gonna be soooo much boofing. The US is gonna get so boofed that we won’t even know what to do.

We’re all gonna be like ,”Noooo! Stop with all the boofing, Brett! You boofed us so much!”

drdabbles,
@drdabbles@lemmy.world avatar

I almost forgot about the boofing. And as we all know, that’s the most important part!

Pistcow,

Rape, arson, and rape?

Sir_Osis_of_Liver,
@Sir_Osis_of_Liver@kbin.social avatar

You said rape twice.

Dkarma,

It’s fine, squee.

AllonzeeLV,

If you’re still there, they aren’t nearly stringent enough, Rapey McKavanaugh.

foggy,

This is a good website

www.brettkavanaugh.beer

thefartographer,

:‘( I like beer -sniffle- and ethics. >:’(

deegeese,

Ethics from another one of the guys who committed perjury in his confirmation hearing.

tastysnacks,

And the way he talked about beer, I’m pretty sure he drinks Coors Light.

Rakonat,

I get the idea that the final ethics code will be ‘Republican Aligned Justices can do what ever they want, Democratic Aligned Justices can be impeached for disagreeing with anything.’

bemenaker,

Well that’s the way republicans in congress already act, of Thomas would have been impeached and removed already. The ethics rules are just for internal discipline rules at SCOTUS.

deadtom,

“We’re TOTALLY going to start policing ourselves one day. Just you wait and see. When? This year isn’t good we have an election coming up and we need to make sure the American people can weigh in on this very important matter [so we can see if Republicans will overthrow democracy and we can move on from this without change. Clarence’s mom ain’t paying rent and I got “baseball tickets” ill need another “small” loan for…].”

athos77,

They're going to be concrete steps by which they can investigate and clear themselves out and wrongdoing, before they head out on vacation with their billionaire "friends".

ThwaitesAwaits,

Oh the irony… 😑

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