Justice Samuel Alitos new comments in a Wall Street Journal interview suggest why he and perhaps other justices might be resisting and rebuffing outside pressure related to ethics despite escalating controversy over justices lavish travel and other offbench behavior . Chief Justice John Roberts has been seeking unanimity among the nine justices for firm ethics standards has learned but such agreement has eluded him . Alito said he voluntarily follows disclosure statutes that apply to lower court judges and expressed disdain for congressional efforts to persuade the justices to adopt their own ethics rules . It is not clear what standards a majority might be considering and the reasoning of the holdouts . The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would create a code of ethics for the justices but the bill is bound to stall to be stonewalled . The bill is likely to lack the necessary votes to advance to the floor and it would be necessary to be approved and it is not likely to be voted against by the Senate Judiciary committee to be considered by the majority of the justices . The legislation would be approved by the Republicans in the Senate and the Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Republicans are likely to vote for the bill to be passed by a vote . The Supreme Court is likely not to be discussed by the Judiciary Committee in the next week . It has not yet been heard by the Senators . The House of Commerce Committee. The Senate of Commerce has not been considered by a Committee of Commerce. It has been described as ‘inappropriate.’ and it’s “inadequate.” and the Senate of commerce. It’ll be “to provide an opportunity to provide an explanation’. It is a ‘to make an example’ for an explanation. The Supreme
John Roberts can’t get a Supreme Court ethics code, he says . John Roberts is
