The Supreme Court published a new code of conduct for its justices Monday amid a congressional effort to impose one on the high court following numerous reports of undisclosed gifts to conservative justices.
The 14-page code and commentary, published Monday and signed on to by all nine justices, is the first formal code of conduct for the life-tenured members of the nation’s highest court.
But in a brief introductory statement, the Supreme Court said that “for the most part these rules and principles are not new” and that they were issued to correct a “misunderstanding” that justices “regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules.”
