The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen on the day that Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito released their delayed financial disclosure reports and the reports were made public in Washington, U.S., August 31, 2023.
The court released its code "to set out succinctly and gather in one place the ethics rules and principles that guide the conduct of the members of the court," according to a brief introductory statement.
Unlike other members of the federal judiciary, the Supreme Court's life-tenured justices had long acted with no binding ethics code.
Most of the ethics revelations in recent months involved Justice Clarence Thomas, one of the court's most conservative members.
The issue had become an political flashpoint, with Democrats in Congress calling on the court to adopt an ethics code, while many Republicans viewed the ethics narrative involving the court as cooked up by liberals upset at its rightward leanings.
Persons:
Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Kevin Wurm, Thomas, Harlan Crow, ProPublica, Koch, Anthony Welters, Andrew Chung, Will Dunham
Organizations:
U.S, Supreme, REUTERS, Rights, Republicans, Democrats, Thomson
Locations:
Washington , U.S, Texas, New York