History has shown that allowing any body to regulate its own conduct with no oversight will not end well. Alito seems to think that because they're a separate branch, they're immune to any kind of regulation.
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Also, any body that can give itself money at the cost of ethics will do so. See Congress and their stock portfolios, police and civil forfeiture, executives and mortgaging the future of their companies, etc.
"As I, and my colleague Justices, are charged with defining what is lawful, we cannot therefore be bound by it. I'm bound by no one and above all law, ethics, and morality as I am its arbiter. As a Supreme Court Justice, I'm pretty much an untouchable god, you see. As an example, in the years ahead I will use the powers I grant myself to seek out the author of this fictitious quote and bring to bear the full power of an unbridled Supreme Court with newly defined libel laws against the author." - Supreme Court Justice Alito probably
Well, isn't regulation of the judiciary the responsibility of Congress? Don't think they'll be getting anything out of them any time soon.
The highest ethical standards must be pretty lowly based on what we know the justices have been getting up to.
Why am I not surprised that Amy is a pearl necklace fan