Supremely Unethical
Posted by kswisher on Monday, February, 28, 2011
100 Law Professors have signed a letter to Congress (particularly, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees), urging that the Supreme Court should be bound, finally, by a code of judicial ethics. Either the substance of the letter or (more likely) the methodology for collecting signatures is questionable, because several big names in judicial ethics are noticeably absent. To the letter’s credit, however, the lack of binding Supreme Court ethics rules is indeed one of the single most embarrassing things in the judicial ethics field. It is breathtakingly hypocritical that all of the federal (and state) judiciary underneath the Supreme Court must comply with a code to which the Court is not likewise held accountable. The long-overdue letter can be read here.
The Judicial Ethics Forum (JEF) 
kswisher said
Coincidentally, after I wrote the preceding post, I received a note requesting signatures. If you are interested in showing your support for the letter’s goals, please go to the following page:
http://www.afj.org/judicial-ethics-sign-on-letter.html