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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Martin Pengelly in Washington

US supreme court ethics: chief justice urged to testify for ‘good of democracy’

John Roberts poses for a new group portrai.
John Roberts poses for a new group portrai. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

The US chief justice should testify before Congress about ethics scandals besetting his supreme court “for the good of democracy”, a leading Californian progressive said.

The justices are “so cloistered, they’re so out of touch”, the congressman Ro Khanna told MSNBC on Sunday. “They don’t have a sense of what life is like, so my plea to him would be for the good of democracy come testify. What are you afraid of?”

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