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May 2, 2023

Senate Judiciary Committee Scrutinizes Supreme Court Ethics Amid Mounting Scandals
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on Supreme Court
ethics reform today amid a mounting series of scandals among justices.
In recent weeks, it's been revealed that Justice Neil Gorsuch sold a
property he co-owned to the head of a major law firm that has since had
22 cases before the Supreme Court. And Pro Publica reports Justice
Clarence Thomas failed to disclose gifts and payments from Texas
billionaire and conservative activist Harlan Crow. In the latest
revelations, Business Insider reports the wife of U.S. Supreme Court
Chief Justice John Roberts was paid $10.3 million in commissions as a
job recruiter placing lawyers at elite law firms. Jane Sullivan Roberts
earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from one law firm that argued a
case before Chief Justice Roberts.


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