Chief justice: Judges must better avoid financial conflicts
JESSICA GRESKO
January 1, 2022, 11:46 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says the federal judiciary needs to do more to ensure judges don't participate in cases where they have financial conflicts of interest.
Roberts made the comments as part of his annual report on the federal judiciary released Friday evening.
Roberts pointed to a series of stories recently in The Wall Street Journal that found that between 2010 and 2018, 131 federal judges participated in a total of 685 matters involving companies in which they or their families owned shares of stock. Federal judges and Supreme Court justices are required under a federal ethics law to recuse themselves from cases where they have a personal financial interest.
Let me be crystal clear: the Judiciary takes this matter seriously. We expect judges to adhere to the highest standards, and those judges violated an ethics rule, Roberts wrote in the nine-page report.
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( The irony could choke a horse. )
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)Who paid those gambling debts ?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)can exploit the gov't to line their own pockets and do favors, and get their nephews and nieces nice gigs.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)The Supreme Court just made Citizens United even worse
Its a great day for dark money.
By Ian Millhiser Jul 1, 2021, 3:15pm EDT
https://www.vox.com/2021/7/1/22559318/supreme-court-americans-for-prosperity-bonta-citizens-united-john-roberts-donor-disclosure
Midnight Writer
(21,717 posts)There is rarely an issue that Koch and his organizations don't take a side on.
"Ginny! I got recusin' to do!"
Exactly.
Scrivener7
(50,918 posts)absolutely nothing to back it up.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Incredible.