ABC News
March 8, 2019
Congress is trying to force the U.S. Supreme Court to hold justices accountable to standards of ethics and good behavior in this politically-polarized “MeToo” era.
The court is currently the only branch of government without an ethical code of conduct or an independent enforcement system to address allegations of wrongdoing.
The House of Representatives on Friday passed a sweeping government transparency and ethics reform bill that requires the federal judiciary to “issue a code of conduct which applies to each justice… of the United States.”