Sen. John Kennedy warned his colleagues in the Senate that the passage of a judicial ethics bill would be"dangerous" and a"court-killing machine" on Thursday. His comments came after Senate Democrats passed the bill out of committee.
The bill, which would require the Supreme Court to create a code of ethics, was passed along party lines by the Senate Judiciary Committee. If passed by the full Senate, the bill would force the court to establish a group to investigate alleged violations of the code of conduct and other laws and improve transparency when a justice has a connection to a party before the court.
The law would require that Supreme Court justices explain why they have recused themselves from a case. The bill was co-sponsored by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Dick Durbin after a series of reports in recent months claimed Supreme Court justices allegedly accepted luxury gifts and were making money through their offices. Durbin has also held Judiciary Committee hearings on Supreme Court ethics."We just advanced Supreme Court ethics reform out of the Senate Judiciary Committee," Durbin tweeted Thursday.
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