Chief Justice John Roberts rejects Senate Democrats’ call for testimony on Supreme Court ethics

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. rejected an invitation by Senate Democrats to testify about the high court’s ethics next week.Instead, he detailed the high court’s ethics standards, saying the court has generally followed the Judicial Conferences’ Code of Ethics that are binding on lower courts — but not the Supreme Court — since 1991.

“A recusal consideration uniquely present for Justices is the impairment of a full court in the event that one or more members withdraws from a case. Lower courts can freely substitute one district or circuit judge for another,” the chief justice wrote. Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat and Judiciary Committee chairman, sent a letter to Justice Roberts last week, asking him — or another justice he designates — to join a hearing set for May 2 about legislation to establish a code of conduct for the high court.

“Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over 25 years. As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than a quarter-century we have known them,” Justice Thomas said in a statement released Friday by the Supreme Court.

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