The new code of conduct lacks any enforcement mechanism and doesn’t forbid justices from leaking decisions.
After a series of reports throughout 2023 alleged ethical missteps by various members of the Supreme Court, each justice signed a newly developed code of conduct.
The code of conduct notes that despite that most of the principles and rules in it are not new — they’ve been tied to Supreme Court justices through various other rulings — the very fact that the Supreme Court didn’t have its own code of conduct before needed to be rectified to clear up any misunderstandings.
„The absence of a Code, however, has led in recent years to the misunderstanding that the Justices of this Court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules,“ the code of conduct reads.
