05-08-2013, 03:51 AM
Several SCOTUS members have gone out of their way to jettison the "Cesars Wife" application as regards behavior of the Court. For a century it's been held that life appointed SC Justices should hold themselves above and apart from partisan politics and commercial life - the sort of activities they would invariably be called to rule upon.
Every state in the union has a judiciary with a code of ethical behavior, some more stringent than others. The SCOTUS has no such code but for that it itself defines and to date the current bench has never shown any inclination to adopt such a code.
While they have no legal obligation to adopt such a code, they certainly have a moral one. It's interesting to note that those of the Court most willing to abdicate moral leadership are almost uniformly from the far right, Scalia, Alito & Thomas.
Attempting to make the indictment of Thomas racial is in itself using the race card to distract from the moral corruption some of the right have brought to this Court.
Every state in the union has a judiciary with a code of ethical behavior, some more stringent than others. The SCOTUS has no such code but for that it itself defines and to date the current bench has never shown any inclination to adopt such a code.
While they have no legal obligation to adopt such a code, they certainly have a moral one. It's interesting to note that those of the Court most willing to abdicate moral leadership are almost uniformly from the far right, Scalia, Alito & Thomas.
Attempting to make the indictment of Thomas racial is in itself using the race card to distract from the moral corruption some of the right have brought to this Court.