'If your wife is an admitted and proud contributor to a coup of our country, maybe you should weigh that in your ethical standards,' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.
to pursue efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, with lawmakers arguing the communications between the two underscore the need for a code of conduct for Supreme Court justices.
A congressional aide told CBS News that Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy's office is working to gain more cosponsors for his bill, the, which would require the Judicial Conference of the United States to create a code of ethical conduct for Supreme Court justices and federal court judges. In remarks on the Senate floor in support of his bill Thursday, Murphy called it"unacceptable" there is no binding code of conduct and no clear standards of recusal for members of the Supreme Court.
First on the agenda for the judiciary panel, though, is the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said. "If your wife is an admitted and proud contributor to a coup of our country, maybe you should weigh that in your ethical standards," she said, a reference to Ginni Thomas.
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