Washington Post: There is a path to save the Supreme Court from itself
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on December 11, 2022.
Rakim Brooks, who heads the progressive group Alliance for Justice, points to an existing entity that could take up this task: the Judicial Conference, which is headed by the Supreme Court chief justice and composed of the chief judge of every circuit, the chief judge of the Court of International Trade and a district judge from each regional judicial circuit. The body addresses a host of policy and management issues for the federal courts, such as allegations of personal misconduct by federal judges. That or a similar body could administer a mandatory code of ethics for the high court and demand greater transparency in recusal decisions without compromising judicial “independence.”
This could be done by statute, or the Supreme Court could be obliged to adopt it by virtue of public pressure.