Congress “absolutely” can force ethics reform on the US supreme court, a senior Democratic senator said, countering arguments made by Harlan Crow, the Republican mega-donor whose gifts to the conservative justice Clarence Thomas are the source of scandal, and by John Roberts, the chief justice himself.
“It is not going to be easy,” Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island told NBC’s Meet the Press in an interview to be broadcast on Sunday. “The work that we’re doing on ethics in the court ought to be easy. And yet it’s not. It’s partisan also.
