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Peter Welch: “The Supreme Court, the nine judges who are the top judges in…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Congressional Corner with Peter Welch on SNAP

Published | Video Starts at 06:23

I'm serving on a Judiciary Committee where we're doing a lot of work on the nominations to federal judgeships. And also there's a lot of concern about the lack of ethics is astonishing. But The Supreme Court, the nine judges who are the top judges in the country, have no code of ethics. And of course, with all the revelations about the extraordinary gifts to one of the justices, Justice Thomas, there's a lot of concern about that. I'll follow up on that then. (06:23–06:30)

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Asserts that the U.S. Supreme Court lacks a code of ethics.

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