Memo to Supremes: Got ethics?
Friday, January 20, 2012 | Posted by Jim Hightower
http://www.jimhightower.com/node/7642
Good grief – how can someone so smart be so stupid? So clueless? So wrong?
John Roberts is not just any someone. He's Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the judicial body of last resort with god-like power to impose "justice" and alter the rules that the rest of us are expected to obey. But what rules of ethical conduct must these nine justices obey?
The answer is: None. While there are written codes of conduct for every other judge in America, the Supremes have majestically exempted themselves from any such enforceable ethical burden. This is now causing a public stink for the Court, since three of the exalted jurists have recently been exposed for participation in nakedly political events to advance the fortunes of right-wing corporate interests for whom they've been ruling. This political partisanship is expressly prohibited by the code of conduct that governs other federal judges, so why should these nine public officials be exempt?
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