The American people deserve to have confidence that the Supreme Court will give a fair and impartial hearing to the most important issues of the day, and that its decisions are based on law, not politics.

It's time to hold Supreme Court justices accountable to the same ethics and disclosure rules as every other federal judge. The highest Court should not be held to the lowest standards.

Please join us in supporting Rep. Chris Murphy's bill (HR 862) that would:

* Apply the Judicial Conference's Code of Conduct, which applies to all other federal judges, to Supreme Court justices. This would allow the public to access more timely and detailed information when an outside group wants to have a justice participate in a conference, such as the funders of the conference.
* Require Supreme Court justices to publicly disclose their reasoning behind a recusal when they withdraw from a case and when they refuse to recuse themselves after a motion is made for them to do so; and
* Require the Judicial Conference to develop a process to review decisions by justices who have refused to step aside from a case.

Ask your Representative to co-sponsor this important legislation!