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.
