The Supreme Court’s Code of Conduct was adopted in Nov. 2023. The last page of the Code noted that “the Chief Justice has ...
Justice Alito recused in Suncor v. Boulder even though neither he nor his wife owns shares in Suncor, a Canadian energy group, or Exxon Mobil, which is also a petitioner in the case. The general ...
As of today, the National Archives has released the justices’ opinion announcements from last term, OT25. As is its tradition, the Court records the announcements when they occur but does not ...
Fix the Court’s Cortez Collins and Gabe Roth have an op-ed today in Bloomberg Law about the recent Judge Mascott scandal and ...
24-6839, BAKER, RALPH W. V. COATES, TA-NEHISI, ET AL.: Because the Court lacks a quorum, 28 U. S. C. §1, and since the qualified Justices are of the opinion that the case cannot be heard and ...
Following the groundbreaking reporting from ProPublica and other outlets, FTC ventured to compile all the SCOTUS gifts, found a few unreported ones Ahead of tomorrow’s expected release of the justices ...
The Supreme Court stands apart from the rest of the government when it comes to the ethics rules they’re required to follow. That said, there are basic principles about bribery and corruption codified ...
The idea of “jurisdiction stripping” has been gaining traction with Court reformers in recent years. The short pitch is that if SCOTUS continues to arrogate more and more power to itself, and/or it ...
Fix the Court is releasing an updated list of the gifts Supreme Court justices have received over the last several years. With the addition of the 185 post-2004 gifts we identified — largely thanks to ...
The American Bar Association’s Model Code of Judicial Conduct, in Rule 2.11, proposes a standard for judicial recusals and lists circumstances that “shall” trigger a judge’s or justice’s ...
The judicial misconduct complaint identified by Federal Circuit Chief Judge Kimberly Moore in March 2023 against Judge Pauline Newman has, at long last, been transferred out of the Federal Circuit and ...
Supreme Court justices collectively earned more than $2.4 million last year for writing books, pushing their post-confirmation earnings past $13 million, with Justice Jackson now holding the title ...