SCOTUS Justice Elena Kagan endorses ethics enforcement mechanism as Biden pushes court reforms
A day after President Biden used an Oval Office address to promise Supreme Court reform, liberal Justice Elena Kagan urged ethics reforms, with a concrete enforcement mechanism.
At the Ninth Circuit Court’s annual judicial conference in Sacramento, California, the Justice answered a question on the difficulties of enforcing an ethics code, especially in deciding who to task with such a responsibility.
“I feel as though we, however hard it is, that we could and should try to figure out some mechanism for doing this,” Kagan said, per Bloomberg Law.
Kagan, who once mused whether accepting a care package of bagels would violate ethics laws, said Chief Justice John Roberts ought to consider creating “some sort of committee of highly respected judges with a great deal of experience and a reputation for fairness” to combat the court’s growing image of corruption.
