The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote next week on legislation that would bring sweeping ethics reforms to the Supreme Court, following a series of reports about justices failing to disclose valuable gifts.
Amid a series of reports about Supreme Court justices failing to disclose luxury trips, real estate deals and other gifts, a key Senate committee is set to consider legislation that would bring sweeping ethics reforms to the high court.
Some Republicans have framed the bill as an attack on the conservative-leaving court by Democrats who are unhappy with its rulings Senate Democrats are pushing for clearer ethics standards for Supreme Court justices, including what gifts and travel justices cannot accept and when justices must recuse themselves from cases because of potential conflicts of interest.
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