07/26/2024

Justice Kagan Says There Must be a Way to Enforce SCOTUS' Ethics Code

She made the remarks at a judicial conference in California

On Thursday, Justice Elena Kagan became the first member of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to call publicly for beefing up its new ethics code by adding a way to enforce it.

In her first public remarks since the nation's highest court wrapped up its term earlier this month, Kagan said she wouldn't have signed onto the new rules if she didn't believe they were good. But having good rules is not enough, she said.

"The thing that can be criticized is, you know, rules usually have enforcement mechanisms attached to them, and this one — this set of rules — does not," Kagan said at an annual judicial conference held by the 9th Circuit. More than 150 judges, attorneys, court personnel and others attended.

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