#judicialethics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #judicialethics, aggregated by home.social.
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#CalledToTheBar pod | #Plagiarism and Ethics at #InternationalCourts
an interesting discussion sparked by the recent revelation that Judge #JuliaSebutinde plagiarized portions of her dissent to the #ICJ's advisory opinion on the #IsraeliOccupation of #Palestine
#JudicialEthics #InternationalJustice #InternationalCourtOfJustice #Israel #oPt @palestine @israel
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It would require the #IRS to initiate an #audit of the justices’ tax returns each year, release the results & make the tax filings public. Nominees to the court would have to disclose 3 yrs of tax returns.
Another measure would allow a two-thirds vote of the court to force a fellow justice to #recuse from a case.
#law #SCOTUS #ethics #JudicialEthics #Judiciary #JudicialReform #CourtReform #SCOTUSreform #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #USpol
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Current rates for standard rooms at Sage Lodge can exceed $1k per night…. W/both Montana trips, #AileenCannon’s required seminar disclosures were not posted until NPR reporters asked about the omissions this year as part of a broader national investigation of gaps in judicial #disclosures.
#law #ethics #judiciary #JudicialEthics
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1247512187/federal-judges-disclosures-luxury-trips -
In 2021 & 2022, #AileenCannon took weeklong trips to the luxurious Sage Lodge in Pray, Montana, for legal colloquiums sponsored by George Mason, which named its #law school for #Scalia thanks to $30M in gifts that conservative judicial kingmaker #LeonardLeo helped organize.
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Customs & Border Protection records revealed that #ClarenceThomas & his wife, #GinniThomas, took a round trip between Hawaii & New Zealand in Nov 2010 on #HarlanCrow’s private jet. Sen #RonWyden, #Democrat of Oregon, writing to Crow’s lawyer, demanded that he supply more info about the #financial relationship between the 2 men.
#law #JudicialEthics #judiciary #corruption #ActivistCourt #DarkMoney #CourtReform
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Some great #SCOTUS editorial cartoons by Mike Luckovich
#Alito #SCOTUSstench #law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #JudicialEthics #Recuse #TermLimits #ChristianNationalism #Jan6 #insurrection
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In a letter to #Democrat ldrs in the #House & #Senate, #Alito said that flag & a 2nd, #religious-themed flag were raised by his wife, w/o his knowledge, & the incidents do not meet the conditions for #recusal outlined in #SCOTUS’s code of conduct.
Alito disclosed for the 1st time that he was not aware of the #UpsideDownFlag until it was called to his attention & that his wife resisted taking it down.
#law #JudicialEthics #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #ChristianNationalists #Jan6 #insurrection
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Justice #Alito tells #Congress he will NOT #recuse from #Jan6 related cases
Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. announced Wed that he will not recuse himself from Jan. 6-related cases at #SCOTUS after Democratic lawmakers questioned whether he could be impartial following reports that an upside-down #flag flew at his home in the weeks after the… [ #insurrection].
#law #PartisanCourt #JudicialEthics #AppealToHeaven #ChristianNationalists
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/29/supreme-court-alito-recuse-flag-jan-6/ -
“The same goes for the flying of an #AppealToHeaven flag at Justice #Alito’s vacation house along the NJ shore. Like the #UpsideDown flag, this #flag is viewed by a great many people as a banner of allegiance on #partisan issues that are or could be before #SCOTUS.
#UnitedStates #law #PartisanCourt #JudicialEthics #Judiciary #TermLimits #Recuse #ChristianNationalists #Jan6 #insurrection
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The upside-down flag was aloft on Jan 17, 2021, images showed. #Trump’s supporters, incl’g some brandishing the same symbol, had *rioted* at the Capitol a little over a week before. President #Biden’s inauguration was 3 days away. Alarmed neighbors snapped photographs, some…were recently obtained by The NYT. Word of the flag filtered back to the court, people who worked there said in interviews.
#SCOTUS #law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #LifetimeAppointments #TermLimits #Recuse #JudicialEthics
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We cannot have confidence in Barrett’s independence and impartiality when it comes to Trump. She compromised herself by accepting nomination to the Court from a President who made it clear he expected the Court to keep him in power. 4/4 #LawFedi #JudicialEthics #Recusal #andersonVgriswold #AmyConeyBarrett
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In his required annual #FinancialReport, #ClarenceThomas said he opted to fly on the #PrivateJet of his friend & #benefactor, #HarlanCrow, for ONE of the trips on the advice of his security detail. The justices faced heightened security risks, #Thomas noted, after the May, 2022 #leak of the court’s majority opinion to eliminate the nationwide right to #abortion & overturn #RoeVWade.
(except he took a number of similar travel gifts prior to the #Dobbs leak & decision)
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Justice Samuel #Alito Took #Luxury Fishing Vacation With #GOP #Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, Alex Mierjeski
@ProPublica
#MegaDonor #SCOTUS #DarkMoney #Influence #Bribery #Law #Legal #Justice #Conflict #JudicialEthics
https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court -
In an opinion essay in The WSJ, Justice #Alito responded to questions about his #PrivateJet travel to a #luxury fishing trip w/a #GOP #MegaDonor #billionaire who frequently has cases before the #SupremeCourt hours before the ProPublica article was published.
The justice wrote he was not required to #disclose the trip or #recuse himself from his benefactor’s cases.
#SCOTUS #DarkMoney #Influence #Law #JudicialEthics
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/us/politics/justice-alito-luxury-travel-fishing-trip.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
A fed judge in #TX blocked US gov approval of a key #AbortionMedication Fri, siding w/#abortion foes in an unprecedented lawsuit …upending #nationwide access….
The highly anticipated ruling puts on hold the #FDA’s approval of #mifepristone, …first cleared for use in the US in 2000. The ruling will not go into effect for 7 days to give the gov time to #appeal.#AbortionRights #AbortionIsEssential #HumanRights #JudgeShopping #VenueShopping #FederalistSociety #RightWingExtremism #JudicialEthics