Some U.S. Supreme Court justices have been acting as if the court exists above the law and beyond any strictures. The two current longest-serving justices and even the chief justice show disdain for any criticism from the public or other branches of government, and show considerable disdain for previous hard-fought, carefully reasoned decisions. Justice Clarence Thomas even said that the court should reconsider the issues of contraception and same-sex marriage.
While demonstrating a haughty attitude about rulings, they are just as snooty about ethics. Here, again, they behave as though their actions are outside the scope of the ethics rules the rest of the judiciary must follow.
