Justice Elena Kagan declined to outright answer the question of whether Congress could impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court . Kagan said the justices are still working behind closed doors to consider whether to implement a code of conduct that would be directed specifically at the high court . Justice Samuel Alito told The Wall Street Journal last month that Congress should stay out of the Supreme Courts business and stop trying to impose ethics rules on justices and clerks . Justice Kagan also addressed public confidence in the court system saying she believes the court can create confidence by acting like a court and staying away from decisions that look political or imposing personal preferences . The liberal justice declined to say much more about a bill that advanced out of Senate Judiciary Committee at the end of July meant to force the . Supreme Court to adopt a stronger ethics policy for fear legal challenges could someday land before the court . She said if the law advances she said then well have the chance to say something about it about it . If the bill advances it would have the opportunity to say it’s not a secret for me to say anything about it but well have to be careful not to trespass on other institutions areas of responsibility, she said . If it advances, she would say then have the possibility of saying something about the law about it if it advances she would have to say nothing about it. If the law was approved she said it would be very difficult to say things about it again. If it was approved, it would not be necessary to say. If you want to use it, you would have it. It would be a very, very hard to say what you need to ask for you to ask you to think about it’s not to think of it. You know what you’ve got
‘We are not imperial’: Justice Kagan says Supreme Court still subject to checks and
