What's brought us here, I think, Mark, is a series of self inflicted wounds by individual Justices that amount to a stain on the Court as a whole. The violations of basic rules of decency, Justices taking free trips, other kinds of financial benefits, have created the appearance of really anything goes. The resistance of the Court itself to a code of ethics, I think has been really instrumental. (06:35–06:47)
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