I signed the ethics professors letter drafted by Alliance for Justice that calls for the Canons of Judicial Ethics to be formally adopted by or imposed on the Supreme Court of the United States. Recent reports show that Justice Clarence Thomas has again failed to disclose financial matters that he should have reported.
Nan Aron - of Alliance for Justice - has published on HuffPost a blistering attack on Justice Thomas. The problem is that failure to disclose benefits received is lumped together with Justice Alito as a "headliner" at a Heritage Foundation event. I don't think that is an offense any more than attending an ACLU dinner would be for Ruth Ginsburg who once served them. (I don't know if she does do such things.)
The point is that they are not the same category of event. Aron hurts her demand for the Judicial Conference to investigate Justice Thomas by lumping together failure to report on financial matters with demonstrations of ideological affinity with the far right. One may be worthy of sanction. The other is a regrettable consequence of conservative success at the ballot box. Not the same.
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