{"id":377,"date":"2023-12-11T15:21:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/youre-invited-scandals-and-scotus-improving-us-supreme-court-ethics\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:21:31","slug":"youre-invited-scandals-and-scotus-improving-us-supreme-court-ethics","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/articles\/youre-invited-scandals-and-scotus-improving-us-supreme-court-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Invited \u2014 Scandals and SCOTUS: Improving US Supreme Court Ethics"},"template":"","class_list":["post-377","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":null,"article_type":153,"authors":null,"related_issues":[105,423],"related_work":[134],"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/ohio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/12\/OFCA-300x166.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"331\" \/>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join Common Cause Ohio and the Ohio Fair Courts Alliance on<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_Vt1weNEvQh2imSw_TTLQKQ#\/registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <b>Monday, December 18 at 6pm<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for an in-depth forum where our esteemed panel of experts will answer questions that are now swirling about influence and ethics at the nation's highest court. They will dissect the lack of judicial ethics, address the pressing need for meaningful reform and accountability, and provide solutions about how trust in the U.S. Supreme Court can be restored.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panelists include: Alex Aronson, former chief counsel to US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Ahearn\u2014Brennan Center for Justice, Sarah Turberville\u2014The Constitution Project, and Lisa Graves\u2014True North Research.<\/span>\r\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ScotusScandals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Register Here<\/b><\/a><\/h5>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b>Get ready for the Scandals &amp; SCOTUS webinar by watching a few videos:<\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5AbrXHVGog0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dark Money and the Supreme Court<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Civil rights attorney Alex Aronson<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explored dark money and the Supreme Court with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pete Dominick<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Stand Up! With Pete, June 5, 2023).<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2AUSgei4YL4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supreme Court: Ready for Reform?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Conversation with Brennan Center<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> President Michael Waldman<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">about possible reforms (Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, November 14, 2023).<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o8UbirzAKeM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does the U.S. Supreme Court Have Credibility?<\/span><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cassandra Burke Robertson<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor of Law and Director, Center for Professional Ethics School of Law at Case Western University a<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shih-Chun Steven Chien<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assistant Professor of Law, Cleveland State University School<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> explore confidence in SCOTUS and reform options<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Cleveland, October 1, 2023).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<b>Love podcasts?\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ProPublica and On the Media explore the legacy of one of the most significant figures pulling strings behind the scenes for the last 30 years, Leonard Leo. Check out the three-part series called, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We Don\u2019t Talk About Leonard (Leo)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/otm\/projects\/we-dont-talk-about-leonard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can find the episodes here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>Take a Deep Dive\u00a0<\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><i> <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/judicial-conference-scotus-federal-judges-ethics-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\"><i>The Judiciary Has Policed Itself for Decades. It Doesn\u2019t Work<\/i><\/a><i>, <\/i>ProPublica, December 13, 2023<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2023\/12\/clarence-thomas-benefactors-subpoena-welcome.html?pay=1701724720369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clarence Thomas\u2019 Benefactors Finally Face the Music<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by David Janovsky and Sarah Turberville, Slate, December 4, 2023\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/analysis-opinion\/whats-missing-supreme-courts-new-ethics-code\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s Missing from the Supreme Court\u2019s New Ethics Code<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by Jen Ahearn, Brennan Center, November 16, 2023<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/about\/Code-of-Conduct-for-Justices_November_13_2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US Supreme Court Code of Conduct<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">released by the Court on November 13, 2023<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/ethics-pressure-supreme-court-announces-adopting-code-conduct\/story?id=104856337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under ethics pressure, Supreme Court announces it's adopting code of conduct<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ABC News, November 13, 2023<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/series\/supreme-court-scotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friends of the Court: SCOTUS Justices\u2019 Beneficial Relationships With Billionaire Donors<\/span><\/i><\/a><b><i>, <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ProPublica, August 10, 2023<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/10\/politics\/supreme-court-ethics-what-matters\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is why it\u2019s difficult to rein in the Supreme Court<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, CNN, August 10, 2023<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogo.org\/reports\/model-code-of-conduct-for-u-s-supreme-court-justices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\"><i>Model Code of Conduct for U.S. Supreme Court Justices<\/i><\/a><i>, <\/i>proposed by the Project on Government Oversight, March 9, 2023<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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