Justices traded memos about potential ethics rules so secretive last year that they reportedly kept them in envelopes and off email servers.

The United States Supreme Court revealed what some justices touted as a landmark new ethics code last year.

But critics noted that the scandal-plagued institution’s new rules lacked any enforcement mechanisms, making them essentially a 14-page long list of suggestions.

A new leak of secret discussions from behind the bench, published in The New York Times Tuesday, reveals which justices fought to keep the code of conduct toothless.

The Times reported that the court’s nine justices started passing ultra-confidential memos, kept in paper envelopes and off email servers, back and forth at the end of last summer.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    99·
    19 days ago

    But, as they traded memos, Justice Neil Gorsuch emerged as a fervent objector to the idea that the code be anything more than voluntary, the Times said.

    Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito apparently backed him up, arguing against critics of the court as bad faith actors.

    Bull fucking shit. They knew full well that complaints were legitimate and not in bad faith. Them saying critics are bad faith actors is the bad faith act.

    These people need consequences for their corruption.

    • Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca
      4·
      18 days ago

      Not going to happen. Sorry, the world got taken over by fascists when the twin towers fell. That was the act that cemented their power. Everything since then has been an illusion of propaganda. Keep your head down and lick the boot on your neck or they send you to prison or make your kids orphans to be crushed and ground into fuel for the economy that serves the desires of the few over the needs of the many.