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Senate Committee to Subpoena Supreme Court Justices’ Conservative Benefactors

30Nov

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Senate Committee to Subpoena Supreme Court Justices’ Conservative Benefactors

Updated Nov. 30, 2023 5:30 pm ETWASHINGTON—The Senate Judiciary Committee approved subpoenas for two conservative power brokers who have helped provide luxury travel for two Supreme Court justices, as majority Democrats said they would press ahead with their ethics investigation of the court despite the code of conduct the justices issued in November. “Today’s vote to issue subpoenas to Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo—two individuals who have refused to comply with this committee’s legitimate oversight requests for months and are at the center of the Supreme Court’s ethical crisis—furthers that goal,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), the committee chairman, said after the vote Thursday.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 ...

George Santos Faces Growing Calls for Expulsion After Damning Ethics Report

17Nov

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George Santos Faces Growing Calls for Expulsion After Damning Ethics Report

Updated Nov. 16, 2023 8:02 pm ETWASHINGTON—The House Ethics Committee said Thursday that it found substantial evidence that Rep. George Santos (R., N.Y.) stole money from his campaign and committed other misdeeds, igniting new calls for his immediate expulsion by colleagues and prompting the embattled lawmaker to say he won’t run for re-election. “Representative Santos sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit” and “blatantly stole from his campaign,” the committee’s report said. The committee said Santos’s conduct “warrants public condemnation, is beneath the dignity of the office, and has brought severe discredit upon the House.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cde...

Supreme Court Issues Code of Conduct After Scandals

13Nov

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Supreme Court Issues Code of Conduct After Scandals

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court issued its first-ever code of conduct Monday, following months of scrutiny and criticism regarding ethical standards applying to the nine justices at the pinnacle of the nation’s legal system. The 15-page document said it largely compiled practices the justices informally followed anyway. But the lack of a formal document “has led in recent years to the misunderstanding that the Justices of this Court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules,” it says. “To dispel this misunderstanding, we are issuing this Code, which largely represents a codification of principles that we have long regarded as governing our conduct.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44...

Senate Democrats Plan to Subpoena Wealthy Figures Who Paid for Thomas’s and Alito’s Luxury Trips

31Oct

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Senate Democrats Plan to Subpoena Wealthy Figures Who Paid for Thomas’s and Alito’s Luxury Trips

Updated Oct. 30, 2023 10:20 pm ETWASHINGTON—Senate Democrats intensified their investigation into the ethics of Supreme Court justices, announcing plans to subpoena documents from three wealthy figures who helped provide trips to Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.“The Supreme Court is in an ethical crisis of its own making,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin of Illinois and Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, who heads a courts subcommittee, said in a Monday statement. By accepting “lavish, undisclosed gifts, the justices have enabled their wealthy benefactors and other individuals with business before the court to gain private access to the justices while preventing public scrutiny of this conduct.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved....