Chief Justice Roberts' wife received commissions from law firms that have cases before Roberts' Supreme Court. How long before ethics/disclosure/recusal rules are established for the justices? politi.co/3WUBH7d via
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Pace University law professor Bennett Gershman writes that “it is plausible that the Chief Justice’s spouse may have leveraged the ‘prestige of judicial office’ to meaningfully raise their household income.”
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Price recalled in his affidavit being told that Mrs. Roberts was the company’s highest-earning recruiter and that her early significant commissions, going to someone with so little recruiting experience, represented a “stark anomaly” compared to the rest of the field.
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In September, POLITICO reported that gaps in ethical disclosures enabled justices, including Roberts, to shield their spouses’ clients who may have business before the court.
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“This complaint raises troubling issues that... demonstrate the need for a mandatory code of conduct for justices,” Durbin said. “We must work on a bipartisan basis to pass... the Supreme Court Ethics Act..." requiring justices to meet the same ethics standards as other judges.
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This type of gross ethical conflict would never be tolerated at any credible news organization yet it's allowed at the Supreme Court, whose members are far far more powerful than any journalist.
According to the article, one single commission was $325,000. There have been many.
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Republicans in the and are not interested in accountably from their majority of unelected wizards.
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Roberts is as corrupt and dishonest as Thomas and Kavanaugh. His "clean" and "reasonable" image has always been a con. The cornerstone of his career is, and has always been, opposition to the Voting Rights Act.
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