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. And then I think a series of decisions that, you know, they're not just wrong, they also overthrow established precedent with such abandon and recklessness that I think it deprives the Court of a sense of consistency and constancy that the public expects. (06:47–06:54)
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Asserts that the Supreme Court's resistance to adopting a code of ethics has been significant.
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