Democrats Push Bill to Regulate Supreme Court

Congress must impose a code of conduct on the Supreme Court that requires justices to recuse themselves when a financial connection exists between the justice or the justice’s family and someone having business before the court, a Democrat-controlled congressional oversight committee heard on June 14.
If the Supreme Court won’t act, Congress will, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said at the meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights.
The subcommittee was reviewing the proposed Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act (SCERT) of 2023 (S.359), which Whitehouse, its chairman, introduced in February. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) introduced a companion bill, H.R. 926, in the House of Representatives at the same time….}