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NPR's A Martinez talks to Amanda Frost, a law professor at the University of Virginia, who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Supreme Court ethics.
After much hemming and hawing, the Supreme Court has finally adopted a formal code of ethics. The rules—the first of their kind the high court has ever instituted—are a credit to the calls for ...
Washington — The Supreme Court issued a code of conduct signed by all nine justices on Monday, laying out formal rules after months of intense scrutiny of the court's ethics practices. The new ...
The written code of conduct nods at the public pressure the Court is facing, but it can’t do much to change the justices’ behavior.
A new sexual misconduct allegation against Justice Brett Kavanugh raises questions about why the Supreme Court doesn't have a code of conduct. Ari Shapiro talks to NPR's Nina Totenberg.
The code is intended as a guide; it doesn’t list penalties for breaches and says not every violation should lead to disciplinary action.
A code of business conduct, sometimes called a code of ethics, is a management tool for setting out an organization's values, responsibilities and ethical obligations.