The U.S. Supreme Court has changed from a once venerated institution and third pillar of our democracy to an ideologically driven, partisan, and intellectually dishonest creator of minority rule. Undisclosed gifts to Justice Clarence Thomas, unacknowledged conflicts of interest in the January 6 case, and a failure to live up to an ethics standard that every other judge in the country must adhere to have driven Americans’ confidence in the institution to new lows.
Seventy percent of Americans think the court now puts ideology over impartiality and I am part of that overwhelming majority. These dire straits have driven me to commit $30 million to the Brennan Center for Justice to require term limits and an enforceable standard of ethics requiring recusal in conflicts of interest.
